Phil Plait Quotes

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• They say that even the brightest star won't shine forever. But in fact, the brightest star would live the shortest amount of time. Feel free…
• Just like people, stars can be important without being terribly bright.
• If a little kid ever asks you just why the sky is blue, you look him or her right in the eye and say, It's…
• I'm tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed as fact.
• Sixty-five million years ago the dinosaurs had a bad day.
• The difference between the dinosaurs and us is that we have a space program and we can vote.
• It’s dead obvious that creationism isn’t science, or even bad science. It’s nonsense. But I’ve long stated it’s also bad religion, because it doesn’t just…
• Other job markets may lay claim to the title, but astronomy is actually the world's oldest profession.
• Some people try to tell me that science will never answer the big questions we have in life. To them I say: baloney! The real…
• A lot of them complain because they say the word denial puts them in the same bin as holocaust deniers. That's too bad. But the…
• How do you convince someone they're not thinking clearly, when they're not thinking clearly? What we're actually saying is no magic, no afterlife, no higher…
• If you took every nuclear weapon ever built at the height of the Cold War, lumped them together and blew them up at the same…
• I'm tired of ignorance held up as inspiration
• Teach a man to reason and he will think for a lifetime.
• Our solar system is fantastically bizarre. There are worlds with features we never imagined. Storms larger than planets, moons with under-surface oceans, lakes of methane,…
• Not everything that’s cool is science, but everything in science is cool.
• I still hear some people say that science takes the wonder out of life. Those people are utterly wrong. Science takes us to the wonder
• You can experience the thrill of discovery, the incredible, visceral feeling of doing something no one has ever done before, see things no one has…
• Welcome to science. You’re gonna like it here.
• The Universe is cool enough without making up crap about it.

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