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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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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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We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.
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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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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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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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To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.
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When a coincidence seems amazing, that’s because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.
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You can’t have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That’s a recipe for disaster. And I don’t mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.
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As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.
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Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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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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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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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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Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the assumption that nobody is smart enough to figure out the answer to a problem.
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As they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion… Although just as in hostage negotiations, it’s probably best to keep both sides talking to each other.
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What I’m saying is, when different experiments give you the same result, it is no longer subject to your opinion. That’s the good thing about science: It’s true whether or not you believe in it. That’s why it works.
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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.
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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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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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I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
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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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I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.
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We spend the first year of a child’s life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There’s something wrong there.
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Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
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