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More Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson
The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
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.
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.
The worst thing that ever happened to America was the 19th Amendment.
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.
The most successful people recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.
To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.
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.
Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what's really there.
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?
