Phil Plait Quotes

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

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#3. 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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#4. Every father who ever lived has a dream for his son.

Grantland Rice

#5. If time travel were possible we'd be inundated with tourist from the future.

Stephen Hawking

#6. I will believe in the right of one man to govern a nation despotically when I find a man born unto the world with boots and spurs, and a nation with saddles on their backs.

Algernon Sidney

#7. Re-programming your mind, body & spirit is like planting a garden, if the soil isn't right nothing will grow.

Nikki Rowe

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

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

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

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#12. They say that even the brightest star won't shine forever. But in fact, the brightest star would live the shortest amount of time. Feel free to extract whatever life lesson you want from that.

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#13. 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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#14. 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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#15. Other job markets may lay claim to the title, but astronomy is actually the world's oldest profession.

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#16. Is there any moral enormity which might not be justified by imitation of such a Deity?

John Stuart Mill

#17. 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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#18. 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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#19. The difference between the dinosaurs and us is that we have a space program and we can vote.

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

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

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#22. There's many a man has more hair than wit.

William Shakespeare

#23. 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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#24. To a pessimist, losing bobby pins is as hopeless as losing hair.
To an optimist, losing hair gives hope to get the lost bobby pins back.

Munia Khan

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

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