In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would be inexcusably egocentric of us to suggest that we’re alone in the universe.
More Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes
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In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
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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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My goal is not to shove information into your head. It’s to find ways to reignite the curiosity that we all had as children for the natural world. You don’t have to tell a child to explore the backyard.
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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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The molecules that comprise our body are traceable to the crucibles of the centers of stars.These atoms and molecules are in us because, in fact, the universe is in us. And, we are not only figuratively, but literally, stardust.
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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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When students cheat on exams, it’s because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
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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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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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I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
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Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
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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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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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To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.
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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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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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