“The word 'biased' has become synonymous with 'wrong'. But 'facts' aren't always the answer + there can be bias towards kindness and wisdom.”— Alain de Botton, twitter.com
“I don’t buy that we’re in a post-fact world. People talk about alternate facts, they talk about fake news and yet at the end of the day the facts, particularly the numbers, they are what they are. They tell us about the past. They give us an ability to, ourselves, judge the forecast that we all have…”— Steve Ballmer, geekwire.com
“Alternate facts? There’s no such thing as an alternate fact! These people are insane.”— James Cameron, thedailybeast.com
“I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a l…”— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, amazon.com
“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com
“The novels I love, the ones I remember, the ones I re-read, have an empathetic human quality, or 'emotional truth.' This quality is difficult to fully define, but I always recognize it when I see it: it is different from honesty and more resilient than fact, something that exists not in the kind of…”— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, theguardian.com
“Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of kids. They outnumber kids. They vote. They wield resources. That's why my public focus is primarily adults.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, reddit.com
“Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com
“We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, youtube.com
“Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that w…”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, huffingtonpost.com
“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…”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, en.wikiquote.org
“If aliens did visit us, I’d be embarrassed to tell them we still dig fossil fuels from the ground as a source of energy.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com
“Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com
“Don’t know if it’s good or bad that a Google search on ‘Big Bang Theory’ lists the sitcom before the origin of the Universe.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com
“Creativity is seeing what everyone else sees, but then thinking a new thought that has never been thought before and expressing it somehow.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, businessinsider.com
“Knowing where you came from is no less important than knowing where you are going.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, haydenplanetarium.org
“It's the inspired student that continues to learn on their own. That's what separates the real achievers in the world from those who pedal along, finishing assignments.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, sciencealert.com