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When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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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Earth Old Thinking Universe
It’s better to understand something than to memorize something.
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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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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
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Learning Love Myself Wrong
Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
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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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There is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.
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There’s a saying in the scientific community, that every great truth goes through three phases. First, people deny it. Second, they say that it conflicts with the Bible. Third, they say that they’ve known it all along.
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Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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Ignorance Literature Science World Yourself
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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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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Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine.
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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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Believe Fact True Yourself
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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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
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