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"People who believe they are ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the universe."
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"Knowledge can be acquired by education, reading, communicating and observing, but also simply by living."

"I know a lot of stuff, not only about you, about me (of course) and many other people.... "So how I don't know??" you ask yourself??You never asked me and even you asked me you never understood me. You just said "Okay"... and that's all."

"The amount of books or films or series which are you going to watch doesn't matter as far as long you understand all of them and keep track of all them."

"What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them."

"If you close your door to the world of books, the gates of the world of ignorance automatically opens and quickly pulls you inside!"
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"I want to put on the table, not why 85% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences reject God, I want to know why 15% of the National Academy don't."

"The moment when someone attaches you to a philosophy or a movement, then they assign all the baggage and all the rest of the philosophy that goes with it to you. And when you want to have a conversation, they will assert that they already know everything important there is to know about you because of that association. And that's not the way to have a conversation."

"I don't know anybody who said, 'I love that teacher, he or she gave a really good homework set,' or 'Boy, that was the best class I ever took because those exams were awesome.' That's not what people want to talk about. It's not what influences people in one profession or another."

"Once upon a time, people identified the god Neptune as the source of storms at sea. Today we call these storms hurricanes.... The only people who still call hurricanes acts of God are the people who write insurance forms."

"The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not true. In fact, we hold our highest rewards for those scientists who can prove others wrong. And by the way, they are famous in their own lifetimes. We don't wait until they're dead."

"Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure."

"I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, everyone will learn to read) that science literacy is the most important kind of literacy they can take into the 21st century. I would undervalue grades based on knowing things and find ways to reward curiosity. In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world."

"Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not."

"My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer."
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