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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.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can’t have a functioning democracy, if the electorate is under-informed or, worse, mis-informed.
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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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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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Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
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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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I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.
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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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As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.
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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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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 love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
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