Neil deGrasse
Neil deGrasse
mind statistics coincidence
When a coincidence seems amazing, that's because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.
way tools fronts
Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.
objective-truth world imagine
Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.
motivation successful people
The most successful people recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.
successful world predictions
I have yet to see a successful prediction about the physical world that was inferred or extrapolated from the content of any religions document.
want firsts opinion
If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.
science thinking guarantees-that
While the Copernican principle comes with no guarantees that it will forever guide us to cosmic truths, it's worked quite well so far: not only is Earth not in the center of the solar system, but the solar system is not in the center of the Milky Way galaxy, the Milky Way galaxy is not in the center of the universe, and it may come to pass that our universe is just one of many that comprise a multiverse. And in case you're one of those people who thinks that the edge may be a special place, we are not at the edge of anything either.
simple looks earth
Since life on Earth is, so far, the only known example of life in the universe, our dilemma may simply be that we have no other examples to compare us with. If we did, then the life/non-life transition might look downright simple to us.
religious people world
Whenever people have used religious documents to make accurate predictions about our base knowledge of the physical world, they have been famously wrong.
mind-blowing creepy haunting
If each dead person became a ghost, there'd be more than 100 billion of them haunting us all. Creepy, but cool.
ignorance knowledge humanity
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.
beauty taken simple
Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.
physics quantum fluctuation
Quantum physics fluctuates all the time. But now the fluctuations are not just particles coming into and out of existence, which happens all the time. It's whole universes coming into and out of existence.
eggs bird mind-blowing
Just to settle it once and for all: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The egg, laid by a bird that was not a chicken.