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More Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson
I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
It's better to understand something than to memorize something.
If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.
We should not be ashamed of not having answers to all questions yet... I'm perfectly happy staring somebody in the face saying, 'I don't know yet, and we've got top people working on it.' The moment you feel compelled to provide an answer, then you're doing the same thing that the religious community does: providing answers to every possible question.
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.
To learn more about science, turn off your electronic device and go outside and look around a bit. Nature is calling you. Go on. The internet will still be here.
We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
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?
I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
