If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONIt’s better to understand something than to memorize something.
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After 50 years of television, there’s no other conclusion the aliens could draw, but that most humans are neurotic, death-hungry, dysfunctional idiots.
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Aliens might be surprised to learn that in a cosmos with limitless starlight, humans kill for energy sources buried in the sand.
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Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
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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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Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
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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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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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To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.
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In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
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Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.
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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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I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.
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Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
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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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To learn more about science, turn off your electronic device and go outside and look around a bit. Nature is calling you. Go on. The internet will still be here.
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