Quotes by Phil Plait

Phil Plait

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 thing is, they do have something in common: a denial of evidence and of scientific consensus.

Complaining

Denial

Holocaust

Astrology … makes vague predictions that can always be adapted after the fact to fit observations, as we’ll see. Astrologers don’t seek causes at all, for a good reason: There isn’t any cause to astrology. If you look for some underlying reason, some connection between the stars and planets and our lives, you won’t find any. For astrology to sell, buyers must not seek out the fundamental principles behind it, because if they do they’ll see that there is none.

Astrology

Connections

Stars

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 moral authoritative father-figure, no security, and no happy ever after. This is a tough sell.

Afterlife

Father

Thinking

However, science isn’t just about showing when you’re right; it’s also about showing when you’re wrong.

Humanity and life are reflected in the stars, and the Universe itself is poetry.

Humanity

Stars

Universe

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

People

Stills

Wonder

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.

Ignorance

Inspiration

Tired

I’m tired of ignorance held up as inspiration.

Ignorance

Inspiration

Tired

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 because of quantum effects involving Rayleigh scattering combined with a lack of violet photon receptors in our retinae.’

Blue

Eye

Kids

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 time, that would be one one-millionth of the energy released at that moment.

Inspiration

Motivation

War

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Afterlife

Astrology

Bad Day

Blue

Complaining

Connections

Crap

Denial

Differences

Dinosaurs

Discovery

Enough

Eye

Father

Feelings

Figures

Holocaust

Humanity

Ideas

Ignorance

Important

Inspiration

Jobs

Kids

Lakes

Levels

Life Lesson

Lifetime

Long

Math

Men

Moon

Morning

Motivation

Nonsense

Ocean

People

Pseudoscience

Real

Reality

Shining

Sometimes

Space

Stars

Stills

Stuff

Thinking

Thrill

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Quotes by Phil Plait

Phil Plait

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 thing is, they do have something in common: a denial of evidence and of scientific consensus.

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 moral authoritative father-figure, no security, and no happy ever after. This is a tough sell.

However, science isn’t just about showing when you’re right; it’s also about showing when you’re wrong.

Humanity and life are reflected in the stars, and the Universe itself is poetry.

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

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.

I’m tired of ignorance held up as inspiration.

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 because of quantum effects involving Rayleigh scattering combined with a lack of violet photon receptors in our retinae.’

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 time, that would be one one-millionth of the energy released at that moment.

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