It’s better to understand something than to memorize something.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONWhen scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
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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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Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.
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In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
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If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.
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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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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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Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.
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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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I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
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Somehow it’s O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, ‘I never learned to read,’ they’d say I was an illiterate dolt.
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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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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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The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
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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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I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.
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