Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONIf you’re really successful at bullshitting, it means you’re not hanging around enough people smarter than you.
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No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
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The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
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Curiously, light-loving green plants reject the Sun’s green light, reflecting it back at you, which is why they look green.
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We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
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It’s better to understand something than to memorize something.
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When a coincidence seems amazing, that’s because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.
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God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that’s getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.
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The day that you stop looking – because you’re content God did it – I don’t need you in the lab. You’re useless on the frontier of understanding the nature of the world.
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If we have the power to turn another planet into Earth, then we have the power to turn Earth back into Earth.
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If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.
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For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.
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You don’t want to raise a kid in a culture where the kid who asks the most questions is annoying. You want a culture where the kid who asks the most questions gets awards and gets another piece of cake.
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You can’t have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That’s a recipe for disaster. And I don’t mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.
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Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would be inexcusably egocentric of us to suggest that we’re alone in the universe.
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