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The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how you think. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Through basic science literacy, people can understand the policy choices we need to be making. Scientists are not necessarily the greatest communicators, but science and communication is one of the fundamentals we need to address. People are interested. -- James Murdoch
Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate, it's not simply, 'Do you know what DNA is? Or what the Big Bang is?' That's an aspect of science literacy. The biggest part of it is do you know how to think about information that's presented in front of you. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
You can't train kids in a world where adults have no concept of what science literacy is. The adults are gonna squash the creativity that would manifest itself, because they're clueless about what it and why it matters. But science can always benefit from the more brains there are that are thinking about it - but that's true for any field. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Not enough of our society is trained how to understand and interpret quantitative information. This activity is a centerpiece of science literacy to which we should all strive-the future health, wealth, and security of our democracy depend on it. Until that is achieved, we are at risk of making under-informed decisions that affect ourselves, our communities, our country, and even the world. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
If I had my choice, every high school would be teaching financial literacy along with math and science. -- Gregory Meeks
We think scientific literacy flows out of how many science facts can you recite rather than how was your brain wired for thinking. And it's the brain wiring that I'm more interested in rather than the facts that come out of the curriculum or the lesson plan that's been proposed. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
The average person doesn't understand what a stem cell is. There's a lack of health literacy in our nation. So the public can't really get into this dialogue because they don't understand the complexity of stem cells, not the faith-based approach, not the ideological or political, but the science behind stem cells. -- Richard Carmona
Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Science literacy is an important part of what it is to be an informed citizen of society. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Science literacy consists in the ability and the desire to follow reports of new scientific advances, throughout your whole life. -- Philip Kitcher
Science literacy is being plugged into the forces that power the universe. There is no excuse for thinking that the Sun, which is a million times the size of Earth, orbits Earth. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson

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