It’s better to understand something than to memorize something.
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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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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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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Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
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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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Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
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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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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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Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.
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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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No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
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We live in a world where not everyone has the urge to help others. It is OK to encourage others to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, but if you do, just remember that some people have no boots.
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Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
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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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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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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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