If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it’s not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONI think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.
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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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If factual information upsets you, then you are creating a world that is not embracing objective truths, and that’s not how you advance a democracy.
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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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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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It’s better to understand something than to memorize something.
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Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
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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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Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine.
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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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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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No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
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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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The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
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God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that’s getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.
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