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More Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson
The most successful people recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.
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.
One of the biggest problems with the world today is that we have large groups of people who will accept whatever they hear on the grapevine, just because it suits their worldview—not because it is actually true or because they have evidence to support it. The really striking thing is that it would not take much effort to establish validity in most of these cases… but people prefer reassurance to research.
No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.
To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.
I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.
The worst thing that ever happened to America was the 19th Amendment.
Does it mean, if you don't understand something, and the community of physicists don't understand it, that means God did it? Is that how you want to play this game? Because if it is, here's a list of things in the past that the physicists at the time didn't understand [and now we do understand] [...]. If that's how you want to invoke your evidence for God, then God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on - so just be ready for that to happen, if that's how you want to come at the problem
