I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONMath is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.
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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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The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
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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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Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
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If you’re really successful at bullshitting, it means you’re not hanging around enough people smarter than you.
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I object to religion in science classrooms not because it’s religion but because it’s not science.
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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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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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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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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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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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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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When we try to look farther into the universe we come to what appears to be the end of space but actually it’s the beginning of time.
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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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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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