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+++ title = "Neil deGrasse Tyson" weight = 110
[taxonomies] tags = ["quotes", "neil degrasse tyson", "life", "past", "future", "education", "thinking", "criticism"] +++
"Life is fragile We live 80 years. But we’re dead after 8 weeks without food, 8 days without water, 8 minutes without air."
"There are more stars in the universe than all the sounds and words ever uttered by all humans who have ever lived."
"The urge to want some bit of information to be true often clouds our ability to assess why that information may be false."
"We are prisoners of the present, in perpetual transition from an inaccessible past to an unknowable future."
"We spend more time forcing students to learn than we do motivating them to learn in the first place."
"If pundits tells you something is true, and you don't have the critical thinking skills to evaluate their statements, then you are putty in their hands, as they shape your world view to their will."