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The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Part of knowing how to think is knowing how the laws of nature shape the world around us. Without that knowledge, without that capacity to think, you can easily become a victim of people who seek to take advantage of you.
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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
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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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Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.
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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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The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
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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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You don’t want to raise a kid in a culture where the kid who asks the most questions is annoying. You want a culture where the kid who asks the most questions gets awards and gets another piece of cake.
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Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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It’s better to understand something than to memorize something.
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No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
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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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Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine.
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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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Today, scientists sound the alarm on other environmental dangers. Vested interests still hire their own scientists to confuse the issue. But in the end, nature, will not be fooled.
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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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