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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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My 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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If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.
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I don’t want people to say, ‘Something is true because Tyson says it is true.’ That’s not critical thinking.
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So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were ‘reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.’
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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.
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The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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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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To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.
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As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.
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I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
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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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When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
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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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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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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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