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Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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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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Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the assumption that nobody is smart enough to figure out the answer to a problem.
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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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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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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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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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Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.
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Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
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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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When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
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You don’t want to raise a kid in a culture where the kid who asks the most questions is annoying. You want a culture where the kid who asks the most questions gets awards and gets another piece of cake.
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Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
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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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Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
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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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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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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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If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it’s not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.
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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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Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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We spend the first year of a child’s life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There’s something wrong there.
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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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For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.
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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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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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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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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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