God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that’s getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONIf 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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As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.
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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
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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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Why can’t we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What’s our excuse?
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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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When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
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The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
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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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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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Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.
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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 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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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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To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.
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One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.
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