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If you’re really successful at bullshitting, it means you’re not hanging around enough people smarter than you.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
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Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
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My goal is not to shove information into your head. It’s to find ways to reignite the curiosity that we all had as children for the natural world. You don’t have to tell a child to explore the backyard.
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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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We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.
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To learn more about science, turn off your electronic device and go outside and look around a bit. Nature is calling you. Go on. The internet will still be here.
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God displayed a sense of humor when he configured the region between our legs an entertainment complex built around a sewage system.
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So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were ‘reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.’
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I don’t want people to say, ‘Something is true because Tyson says it is true.’ That’s not critical thinking.
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What I’m saying is, when different experiments give you the same result, it is no longer subject to your opinion. That’s the good thing about science: It’s true whether or not you believe in it. That’s why it works.
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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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As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.
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What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind through the universe? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos. Have a nice day.
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I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
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We live in a world where not everyone has the urge to help others. It is OK to encourage others to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, but if you do, just remember that some people have no boots.
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Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
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Why can’t we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What’s our excuse?
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Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.
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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.
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Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
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Claiming there is no other life in the universe is like scooping up some water, looking at the cup and claiming there are no whales in the ocean.
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Today, scientists sound the alarm on other environmental dangers. Vested interests still hire their own scientists to confuse the issue. But in the end, nature, will not be fooled.
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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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Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.
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