Phil Plait Quotes

#1. How do you convince someone they're not thinking clearly, when they're not thinking clearly? What we're actually saying is no magic, no afterlife, no higher moral authoritative father-figure, no security, and no happy ever after. This is a tough sell.

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#2. When you're dealing with the universe, ignorance can be deadly.

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#3. If you took every nuclear weapon ever built at the height of the Cold War, lumped them together and blew them up at the same time, that would be one one-millionth of the energy released at that moment.

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#4. Not everything that's cool is science, but everything in science is cool.

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#5. Humanity and life are reflected in the stars, and the Universe itself is poetry.

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#6. The difference between the dinosaurs and us is that we have a space program and we can vote.

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#7. Pseudoscience is like a virus. At low levels, it's no big deal, but when it reaches a certain threshold it becomes sickening.

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#8. I still hear some people say that science takes the wonder out of life. Those people are utterly wrong. Science takes us to the wonder

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#9. Other job markets may lay claim to the title, but astronomy is actually the world's oldest profession.

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#10. You can experience the thrill of discovery, the incredible, visceral feeling of doing something no one has ever done before, see things no one has ever seen before, know something no one has ever known before ... Welcome to science, you're gonna like it here.

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#11. Some people try to tell me that science will never answer the big questions we have in life. To them I say: baloney! The real problem is your questions aren't big enough.

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#12. The Universe is cool enough without making up crap about it.

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#13. Our solar system is fantastically bizarre. There are worlds with features we never imagined. Storms larger than planets, moons with under-surface oceans, lakes of methane, worldlets that swap places ... and that's just at Saturn.

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#14. Just like people, stars can be important without being terribly bright.

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#15. However, science isn't just about showing when you're right; it's also about showing when you're wrong.

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#16. It's dead obvious that creationism isn't science, or even bad science. It's nonsense. But I've long stated it's also bad religion, because it doesn't just take faith, it also takes a phenomenal disregard of reality.

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#17. Teach a man to reason and he will think for a lifetime.

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