His passing has left an intellectual vacuum in his wake. But it's not empty. Think of it as a kind of vacuum energy permeating the fabric of spacetime that defies measure. Stephen Hawking, RIP 1942-2018.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Astrophysicist
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- Evidence collected over many years, obtained from many locations, indicates that the power of Prayer is insufficient to stop bullets from killing school children.
- SCIENTISTS: “We’ve produced the first-ever image of a supermassive Black Hole, 55-million light years away” RESPONSE: “Oooh!” SCIENTISTS: “We’ve concluded that humans are catastrophically warming Earth” RESPONSE: “That conflicts with what I want to be true, so it must be false”
- In school, students cheat because the system values high grades more than students value learning.
- Look what happened the last time you didn’t vote.
- In the past 48hrs, the USA horrifically lost 34 people to mass shootings. On average, across any 48hrs, we also lose… 500 to Medical errors 300 to the Flu 250 to Suicide 200 to Car Accidents 40 to Homicide via Handgun Often our emotions respond more to spectacle than to data.
- Let’s Make America Smart Again.
- When did it become okay to be more offended by what someone with no power says than by what someone with power does?
- Imagine how much more advanced society would be today if women, who comprise half the world’s brain power, were socially & intellectually enfranchised from the beginning of civilization.
- You Matter. Unless you multiply yourself by the speed of light squared. Then you Energy.
- I dream of a world where truth shapes people's politics, rather politics shaping what people think is true.
- Merry Christmas to the world’s 2.5 billion Christians. And to the remaining 5 billion people, including Muslims Atheists Hindus Buddhists Animists & Jews, Happy Monday.
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- You know it's true… Every disaster movie begins with a scientist being ignored.