No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONScience literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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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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As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.
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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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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
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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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I wonder if, in fact, we have been observed by aliens and upon close examination of human conduct and human behavior they have concluded that there is no sign of intelligent life on Earth.
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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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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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To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.
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Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.
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Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
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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.
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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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