God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that’s getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONMy 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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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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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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When students cheat on exams, it’s because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
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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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No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
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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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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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If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.
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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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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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As they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion… Although just as in hostage negotiations, it’s probably best to keep both sides talking to each other.
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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.
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As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.
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