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More Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson
The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.
God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance.
The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.
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.
I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
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.
To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.
We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
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.
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.
