90 Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson about science
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People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers.
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To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of shit.
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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?
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Down there between our legs, it's like an entertainment complex in the middle of a sewage system. Who designed that?
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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.
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One of the great challenges in this world is knowing enough about a subject to think you're wright, but not enough about the subject to know you're wrong.
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One of the great challenges in this world is knowing enough to think you're right, but not enough about the subject to know you're wrong.
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The Universe was opaque until 380.000 years after the Big Bang.
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If you removed all the arteries, veins, & capillaries from a person’s body, and tied them end-to-end…the person will die.
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