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?
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONThe Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
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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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Perhaps we’ve never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon earth and decided there’s no sign of intelligent life.
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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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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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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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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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As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.
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After 50 years of television, there’s no other conclusion the aliens could draw, but that most humans are neurotic, death-hungry, dysfunctional idiots.
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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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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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Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.
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In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
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Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
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Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
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