Scientifically Literate Quotes

#1. You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That's a recipe for disaster. And I don't mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#2. To be scientifically literate is
to empower yourself to
know when someone else is
full of bullshit.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#3. The possibility of genetic modification reminds me of the need for a scientifically literate electorate. Please stay tuned and vote!

Bill Nye

#4. Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate, it's not simply, 'Do you know what DNA is? Or what the Big Bang is?' That's an aspect of science literacy. The biggest part of it is do you know how to think about information that's presented in front of you.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#5. We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.

Bill Nye

#6. You have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not. And I don't mind if you're not scientifically literate, but just admit that to yourself, so that you'll know, and perhaps you can take a first step to try to eradicate that.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#7. You can't really be scientifically literate if you don't understand evolution. And you can't be an educated member of society if you don't understand science.

Eugenie Scott

#8. If you're scientifically literate, the world looks very different to you, and that understanding empowers you.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#9. We have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#10. Zane rolled his eyes. "I hope your insurance is up to date," he said as they stopped at another door. "Grady doesn't forget people who fuck around with him.

Abigail Roux

#11. After the 'war to end war' they seem to have been pretty successful in Paris at making a 'Peace to end Peace.

Archibald Wavell

#12. Designing a system for intrinsic responsibility could mean, for example, requiring all towns or companies that emit wastewater into a stream to place their intake pipes downstream from their outflow pipe.

Donella H. Meadows

#13. The music of kindness may be short lived, but its echoes are everlasting.

Debasish Mridha

#14. The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism - Couture advocates it in a little book called 'Causeries d'Atelier' written about 1860 - it is part of the technique of Impressionism but used for quite a different reason.

John Singer Sargent

#15. The thrill is to keep envisioning what can be.

Oprah Winfrey

#16. At this stage of my life, I've dedicated myself to playing what I want to play, how I want to play it for the rest of my time. Regardless of whether one might like it or one might not like it, this is where I am.

Chico Hamilton

#17. Beware when your enemy's too easily defeated.

Toba Beta

#18. But herein is work for patience, for the rest is not for to-day, nor the triumph for the present, but "afterward." Wait, O soul, and let patience have her perfect work.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#19. We are all warned to read labels. The salutary truth is that we shouldn't be eating anything that has a label on it!

T.C. Fry

#20. Its an arrogant conceit of humans to think that they can "give" justice in whatever capacity. Karma would boomerang sooner or later and you are not required to meddle with it. Laws don't ensure justice but ensures fear of punishment in men much like religion instills fear of God.

Nikhil Sharda

#21. My biggest song in the world is 'Nothing's Gonna Change My Love for You.' All over the world, it's number one on the whole planet.

George Benson

#22. I don't know the figures, but Hollywood must buy 100 rights for every movie that actually gets made.

Bryan Burrough