reason Quotes

The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how you think.

I claim that all those who think they can cherry-pick science simply don't understand how science works. That's what I claim. And if they did, they'd be less prone to just assert that somehow scientists are clueless.

As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that are shared by others. In that state of mind, they have earned a kind of inoculation against the fuzzy thinking of these weird ideas floating around out there.

I don't want people to say, 'Something is true because Tyson says it is true.' That's not critical thinking.

The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.

A system of thought that accepts no inconsistencies is a frightful thing.

As a Jew, I believe that every argument has a counterargument.

The more educated we are, the less we are prepared to tolerate views contrary to our own.

The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.

I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.