The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.
We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.
Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.
... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.
My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.
I want to put on the table, not why 85% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences reject God, I want to know why 15% of the National Academy don’t.
God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance.
Not only do we live among the stars, the stars live within us.
Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?
The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street and say: ‘Have you HEARD THIS?
There’s as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.
When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination
![So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?](https://quotes.thefamouspeople.com/images/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson-38937.jpg)
So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?
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.
Down there between our legs, it's like an entertainment complex in the middle of a sewage system. Who designed that?
Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program.
So what is true for life itself is no less true for the universe: knowing where you came from is no less important than knowing where you are going.
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Cutting PBS support (0.012% of budget) to help balance the Federal budget is like deleting text files to make room on your 500Gig hard drive
When students cheat on exams it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
The remarkable feature of physical laws is that they apply everywhere, whether or not you choose to believe in them. After the laws of physics, everything else is opinion.
Scientific inquiry shouldn't stop just because a reasonable explanation has apparently been found.
If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.
I love the smell of the universe in the morning.
God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.
