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The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York. Hosted the Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey television series (2014).
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The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I did yesterday and lessen the suffering of others.
We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
Science is a way of equipping yourself with tools to interpret what happens in front of you.
Knowing where you came from is no less important than knowing where you are going.
The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of planned intervention.
I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.