Quotes About Scientific Literacy

#1. You have not fully expressed your power as a voter until you have scientific literacy in topics that matter for future political issues.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#2. We think scientific literacy flows out of how many science facts can you recite rather than how was your brain wired for thinking. And it's the brain wiring that I'm more interested in rather than the facts that come out of the curriculum or the lesson plan that's been proposed.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#3. Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy.

Stephen Jay Gould

#4. Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#5. It was still the custom of the countryside to build with local materials produced as close to the selected site as possible, for transport was difficult, even the best of country roads being more fitted for horseback traffic rather than heavy loads.

Flora Thompson

#6. Scientific knowledge scarcely exists amongst the higher classes of society. The discussion in the Houses of Lords or of Commons, which arise on the occurrence of any subjects connected with science, sufficiently prove this fact ...

Charles Babbage

#7. All that she had had, and all that she had missed, were lost together, and were twice lost in this landslide of remembered losses.

Katherine Anne Porter

#8. Much insight into himself could have been gained from contemplation of these things, but Wintrow reined his mind away from it. Perhaps he did not want to know himself quite that well."
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Robin Hobb

#9. Naomi's my girlfriend," I say aloud, just to test the words, see how they feel fucking across my lips. Ronnie flips a page in an old copy of Rollin' Strong magazine and ignores me.
"Yeah, we heard. Sixteen times since we came in here," Josh bitches.

C.M. Stunich

#10. Some people need a fig-leaf on their mouths.

Martin Luther

#11. I think I could have a funnier, more economic sets. But that's the comedy I do. And I understand if people aren't interested in it and would rather listen to someone else. But I'll never understand the anger people have toward me.

David Cross

#12. We fail in even the simplest of all scientific observations-nobody looks up anymore.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#13. The aim of open government is to take advantage of the know-how and entrepreneurial spirit of those outside government institutions to work together with those inside government to solve problems.

Beth Simone Noveck

#14. You're NOT Norway!!! You'll never BE Norway!!! And BECAUSE of your not being Norway, you will be CRUELLY and UNFORGIVINGLY PUNISHED!!!

Denmark

#15. Science literacy consists in the ability and the desire to follow reports of new scientific advances, throughout your whole life.

Philip Kitcher

#16. You just realize that at the beginning of 'Scooby' you're just going to start at level ten and stay at ten the entire time. It's hard. It physically beats you up. It's definitely one of the hardest movies you can do.

Matthew Lillard

#17. A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there.

Spike Lee

#18. Recovery is a bit like an addiction; you take it day by day. If you set yourself too many goalposts, you'll have problems.

Simon Weston