In the words of Neil deGrasse Tyson:
My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.
Claiming there is no other life in the universe is like scooping up some water, looking at the cup and claiming there are no whales in the ocean.
God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.
When students cheat on exams, it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
No matter what eyewitness testimony is in the court of law, it is the lowest form of evidence in the court of science.
Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.
One should not be too distracted by definitions. Ideas transcend definitions.
With automatic spell checkers running unleashed over what we compose, our era is that of correctly spelled typos.
Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.
People think about life from day-to-day rather than thinking about life as something that invents a new kind of tomorrow.
The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
I object to religion in science classrooms not because it's religion but because it's not science.
Only when creative people take ownership of cosmic discovery will society accept science as the cultural activity that it is.
If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.
I love the future we might invent for ourselves that I have not yet dreamt of.
Italy valued cathedrals while Spain valued explorers. So worldwide, five times as many people speak Spanish than Italian.
Not only are we in the universe, the universe is in us. I don't know of any deeper spiritual feeling than what that brings upon me.
Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
Many people feel small because they're small and the universe is big, but I feel big.
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.
Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical.
We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
To achieve this density of a neutron star at home, just cram a herd of 50 million elephants into the volume of a thimble.
Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
I remain unconvinced that anything other than rapid decomposition is the fate of my body and mind after death.
Perhaps we’ve never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon earth and decided there’s no sign of intelligent life.
I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
Science is like an inoculation against charlatans who would have you believe whatever it is they tell you.
Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.
I am proud to be part of a species where a subset of its members willingly put their lives at risk to push the boundaries of our existence.
I have yet to see a successful prediction about the physical world that was inferred or extrapolated from the content of any religions document.
Next time you're stunned by a large moon on the horizon, bend over and view it between your legs. The effect goes away entirely.
Extreme skepticism and extreme gullibility are two equal ways of not having to think at all. And I don't think I'm the first to say that.
Like a snowplow in overdrive, a supernova shockwave might sweep away any gas clouds in its path.
If you're really successful at bullshitting, it means you're not hanging around enough people smarter than you.
Countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.
I'd like to live in a world where people embrace objective truths rather than be offended by them.
Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what's really there.
God displayed a sense of humor when he configured the region between our legs an entertainment complex built around a sewage system.
I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.
I see myself in pop culture. I listen to pop music, I do pop things, and I'm also a scientist.
If the Sun exploded, we wouldn't know about it for 8 minutes and 20 seconds. Light and gravity take that long to reach us. Then we would vaporize.
When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
If we have the power to turn another planet into Earth, then we have the power to turn Earth back into Earth.
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.
Any time we are answer-driven rather than idea driven, we have lost the true meaning of education.
The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.
Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program.
The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams.
There is no true understanding of Biology without Chemistry. And there's no true understanding of Chemistry without Physics.
There's no shortage of people that we can put on, because science touches us all.
The most successful people recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.
Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.
If you're scientifically literate, the world looks very different to you, and that understanding empowers you.
Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.
To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.
When we try to look farther into the universe we come to what appears to be the end of space but actually it's the beginning of time.
Photons are accurately and legitimately described as waves and particles at the same time. They are genuine wavicles.
Curiously, light-loving green plants reject the Sun's green light, reflecting it back at you, which is why they look green.
I think everyone should have a personal mission to leave the Earth a better place for them having lived in it and let Earth then take it from there.
If each dead person became a ghost, there'd be more than 100 billion of them haunting us all. Creepy, but cool.
I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.
You don't discard Newton. Newton becomes the limiting case of how you would apply Einstein's theories.
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.
Society needs to see science not as a luxury of funding but as a fundamental activity that drives enlightenment, economics, and security.
If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.
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