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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.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
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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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I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.
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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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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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Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
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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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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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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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