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More Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson
The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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.
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?
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.
If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.
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
The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.
The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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.
