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More Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson
I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.
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.
It's better to understand something than to memorize something.
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?
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.
God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance.
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.
Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what's really there.
