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Richard Dawkins and Neil deGrasse Tyson talk the human mind, life, and history. A fantastic StarTalk episode that was also posted on Richard Dawkin’s youtube. Check it out!

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
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One thing is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.

Neil deGrasse Tyson (via pithia)

Give a kid a book, and you change the world. In a way, even the universe.

In the third episode of his Cosmos series, Neil deGrasse Tyson echoes Carl Sagan even down to the timeless sentiment about books.

For good measure, complement with Maurice Sendak’s little-known and lovely posters on the joy of reading.

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What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters on an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos.

Have a nice day.

Neil deGrasse Tyson, “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries” (via astro-stoner)

The great tragedy is that they’re removing art completely, not because they’re putting more science in, but because they can’t afford the art teachers or because somebody thinks it’s not useful. An enlightened society has all of this going on within it. It’s part of what distinguishes what it is to be human from other life forms on Earth — that we have culture.

Neil deGrasse Tyson (via peternyc)