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29 quotes
American astrophysicist and science communicator
“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”
"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."
on Biology
"Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination"
on Philosophy
"The good thing about the laws of physics is that they require no law enforcement agencies to maintain them"
on Physics
"God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance."
on Science
"The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you."
"I fear living a life where I could have accomplished something and didn't. That's what I fear. I don't fear death."
on Fear
"There is no greater education than one that is self-driven."
on Learning
"Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not."
on Success
"Space only becomes ordinary when the frontier is no longer being breached."
"The urge to want some bit of information to be true often clouds our ability to assess why that information may be false."
on Truth
"My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer."
on Curiosity
"I think the greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves."
on Identity
"Passion is what gets you through the hardest times that might otherwise make strong men weak, or make you give up."
on Resilience
"Perhaps we've never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon Earth and decided there's no sign of intelligent life."
on Intelligence
"I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge."
on Wisdom
"... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance."
"Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow."
on Education
"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."
"We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically."
on Life
"The less evidence we have for what we believe is certain, the more violently we defend beliefs against those who don't agree."
on Psychology
