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.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONThe greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
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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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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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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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Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.
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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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It’s better to understand something than to memorize something.
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God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that’s getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.
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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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If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.
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I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
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As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.
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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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When a coincidence seems amazing, that’s because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.
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The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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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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