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It’s better to understand something than to memorize something.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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When we try to look farther into the universe we come to what appears to be the end of space but actually it’s the beginning of time.
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Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
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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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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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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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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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I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people’s politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.
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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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If you’re really successful at bullshitting, it means you’re not hanging around enough people smarter than you.
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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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We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
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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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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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When a coincidence seems amazing, that’s because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.
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Part of knowing how to think is knowing how the laws of nature shape the world around us. Without that knowledge, without that capacity to think, you can easily become a victim of people who seek to take advantage of you.
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As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.
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