In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONWe are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
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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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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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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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I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.
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We spend the first year of a child’s life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There’s something wrong there.
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As they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion… Although just as in hostage negotiations, it’s probably best to keep both sides talking to each other.
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Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
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I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
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When students cheat on exams, it’s because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
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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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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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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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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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Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.
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Aliens might be surprised to learn that in a cosmos with limitless starlight, humans kill for energy sources buried in the sand.
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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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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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Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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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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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.
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Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
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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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I wonder if, in fact, we have been observed by aliens and upon close examination of human conduct and human behavior they have concluded that there is no sign of intelligent life on Earth.
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Perhaps we’ve never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon earth and decided there’s no sign of intelligent life.
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