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

— Phil Plait Bad Astronomy (2002)

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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.

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

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Death from the Skies! (2008)

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.

Death from the Skies! (2008)

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."

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