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We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
― Neil deGrasse Tyson
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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.
― Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
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If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.
― Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Reality
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One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.
― Neil deGrasse Tyson
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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
― Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Ignorance
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Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.
― Neil deGrasse Tyson
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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.
― Neil deGrasse Tyson
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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.
― Neil deGrasse Tyson
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To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.
― Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
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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
― Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
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Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what's really there.
― Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Doors
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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?
― Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
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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.
― Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
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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.
― Neil deGrasse Tyson
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The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
― Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
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The most successful people recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.
― Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Motivation
Successful
People