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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.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.
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Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
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To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.
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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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If each dead person became a ghost, there’d be more than 100 billion of them haunting us all. Creepy, but cool.
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In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
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If you’re really successful at bullshitting, it means you’re not hanging around enough people smarter than you.
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Practically every food you buy in a store for consumption by humans is genetically modified food. There are no wild, seedless watermelons. There’s no wild cows.
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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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The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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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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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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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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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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Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.
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As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.
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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
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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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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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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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Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
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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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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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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 love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
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The molecules that comprise our body are traceable to the crucibles of the centers of stars.These atoms and molecules are in us because, in fact, the universe is in us. And, we are not only figuratively, but literally, stardust.
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