Phil Plait Quotes

• Pseudoscience is like a virus. At low levels, it's no big deal, but when it reaches a certain threshold it becomes sickening.

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  Viruses, Pseudoscience, Levels

  "Scientist attacks alien claims on Mars" By Robert Roy Britt, www.cnn.com. March 18, 2004.

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• Nuestro sistema solar es fantásticamente extraño. Hay mundos con características que nunca habíamos imaginado. Tormentas más grandes que planetas, lunas con océanos bajo la superficie, lagos de metano, worldlets que intercambian lugares... y eso sólo en Saturno.

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  Ocean, Moon, Lakes

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• Estoy harto de que la ignorancia se considere inspiración, de que el antiintelectualismo despiadado se considere un rasgo positivo y de que la opinión desinformada se muestre como un hecho.

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  Inspiration, Tired, Ignorance

  "The Mainstreaming of Crazy". Blog at Discover magazine, blogs.discovermagazine.com. September 08, 2009.

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• Teach a man to reason and he will think for a lifetime.

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  Men, Thinking, Lifetime

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• Si un niño le pregunta por qué el cielo es azul, mírele a los ojos y dígale: "Es debido a los efectos cuánticos de la dispersión de Rayleigh combinados con la falta de receptores de fotones violetas en nuestra retina".

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  Kids, Eye, Blue

  "Bad Astronomy". Book by Phil Plait, 2002.

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• 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.

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  Father, Thinking, Afterlife

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• 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 ever seen before, know something no one has ever known before. ... Welcome to science, you're gonna like it here.

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  Discovery, Feelings, Thrill

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• 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 take faith, it also takes a phenomenal disregard of reality.

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  Reality, Long, Nonsense

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• 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

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  People, Wonder, Stills

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• The difference between the dinosaurs and us is that we have a space program and we can vote...

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  Differences, Space, Dinosaurs

  "How to defend Earth from asteroids". TED Talk, www.ted.com. September 2011.

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• Just like people, stars can be important without being terribly bright.

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  Stars, People, Important

  "Bad Astronomy". Book by Phil Plait, 2002.

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• Other job markets may lay claim to the title, but astronomy is actually the world's oldest profession.

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  Jobs, Titles, World

  "Death from the Skies!". Book by Phil Plait, 2008.

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• Me parece increíble que no sólo podamos colocar una sonda alrededor de Saturno y obtener imágenes de sus lunas, sino que nuestras matemáticas y nuestra física sean tan jodidamente precisas que podamos decir: "Oye, ¿sabes qué? En esta fecha a esta hora si giramos Cassini en esa dirección veremos una luna a más de 2 millones de kilómetros pasar por delante de otra a casi 3 millones de kilómetros". Cada mañana, tengo un 50% de posibilidades de encontrar mis llaves. Eso pone las cosas en perspectiva.

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  Morning, Math, Moon

  "A Marvelous Night for a (Saturn) Moon Dance". blogs.discovermagazine.com. February 10, 2010.

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

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  "Bad Astronomy". Book by Phil Plait, 2002.

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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 to extract whatever life lesson you want from that.

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  Stars, Life Lesson, Shining

  "Death from the Skies!". Book by Phil Plait, 2008.

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• The Universe is cool enough without making up crap about it.

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  Enough, Crap, Universe

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

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  Stars, Humanity, Universe

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• I'm tired of ignorance held up as inspiration.

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  Inspiration, Tired, Ignorance

  "The mainstreaming of crazy". "Bad Astronomy" blog by Phil Plait at "Discover Magazine", blogs.discovermagazine.com. September 8, 2009.

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• Welcome to science. You’re gonna like it here.

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  Bienvenido

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• Sometimes, even by accident, the universe makes beauty, and we can stand back in awe of it. Even better - we can figure out why. Science! I love this stuff.

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  Stuff, Sometimes, Figures

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• 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 problem is your questions aren't big enough.

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  Real, Gente, Intentar

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• Not everything that’s cool is science, but everything in science is cool.

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• 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.

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  Stars, Astrology, Connections

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• 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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  Motivation, War, Inspiration

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• The best idea ever thought of in the history of humanity is useless unless someone communicates it. It will die in the test tube. And in our case, what we're communicating here to people is not necessarily something they want to hear. And so, our demeanor - how we deliver this message - takes on crucial, crucial importance.

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  Ideas, People, Humanity

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