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More Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson
If factual information upsets you, then you are creating a world that is not embracing objective truths, and that's not how you advance a democracy.
To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.
Need a distraction today? Not only does 12 + 1 = 11 + 2, but the letters "twelve plus one" rearrange to give you "eleven plus two."
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.
If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.
The most successful people recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.
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.
I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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?
The problem in society is not kids not knowing science. The problem is adults not knowing science. They outnumber kids 5 to 1, they wield power, they write legislation. When you have scientifically illiterate adults, you have undermined the very fabric of what makes a nation wealthy and strong.
