God displayed a sense of humor when he configured the region between our legs an entertainment complex built around a sewage system.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONIf 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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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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Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.
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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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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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Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.
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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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Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.
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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
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No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
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Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
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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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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 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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Practically every food you buy in a store for consumption by humans is genetically modified food. There are no wild, seedless watermelons. There’s no wild cows.
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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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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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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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We live in a world where not everyone has the urge to help others. It is OK to encourage others to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, but if you do, just remember that some people have no boots.
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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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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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I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
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Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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The day that you stop looking – because you’re content God did it – I don’t need you in the lab. You’re useless on the frontier of understanding the nature of the world.
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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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It’s better to understand something than to memorize something.
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