I object to religion in science classrooms not because it’s religion but because it’s not science.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONI love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
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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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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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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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There’s a saying in the scientific community, that every great truth goes through three phases. First, people deny it. Second, they say that it conflicts with the Bible. Third, they say that they’ve known it all along.
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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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Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of 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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I 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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Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
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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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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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The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
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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 are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.
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