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More Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson
It's better to understand something than to memorize something.
The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance.
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.
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.
I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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.
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?
We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
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.
