6 Quotes & Sayings By Philip Plait

Dr. Philip Plait (www.BadAstronomy.com) is the founder and editor of Bad Astronomy, a popular blog about science and astronomy, and is an astronomer at the University of Maryland College Park. He is also an author of books about astronomy, including Death from the Skies! Observing Comets and Asteroids, and Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, which was a finalist for the 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology. His latest book is The Case Against Pluto: A Graphic Guide to Our Strange Solar System.

Science asymptotically approaches reality.
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Science asymptotically approaches reality. Philip Plait
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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. Philip Plait
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If you wish to view this as a cautionary tale, be my guest. Philip Plait
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Sure, black holes can kill us, and in a variety of interesting and gruesome ways. But, all in all, we may owe our very existence to them. Philip Plait
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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. Philip Plait