If you’re really successful at bullshitting, it means you’re not hanging around enough people smarter than you.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can’t have a functioning democracy, if the electorate is under-informed or, worse, mis-informed.
More Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes
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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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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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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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The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
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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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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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What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind through the universe? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos. Have a nice day.
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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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Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.
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So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were ‘reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.’
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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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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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Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.
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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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In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
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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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