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Neil deGrasse Tyson - The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.

Neil deGrasse Tyson - The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.
Neil deGrasse Tyson


"The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it." - Neil deGrasse Tyson.

"๊ณผํ•™์˜ ์ข‹์€ ์ ์€ ๋‹น์‹ ์ด ๋ฏฟ๋“  ์•ˆ ๋ฏฟ๋“  ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค." - ๋‹ ๋””๊ทธ๋ž˜์Šค ํƒ€์ด์Šจ.


The Objective Reality of Science


Neil deGrasse Tyson (born 1958) is an American astrophysicist, planetary scientist, author, and science communicator who has become one of the most recognizable faces in contemporary science education. As the director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History, Tyson has dedicated his career to making complex scientific concepts accessible to the public. He has authored numerous books, hosted the television series "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey," and appeared regularly on various media platforms to discuss scientific topics. His charismatic approach to science communication has inspired millions to develop a deeper appreciation for the universe and the scientific method.


๋‹ ๋””๊ทธ๋ž˜์Šค ํƒ€์ด์Šจ(1958๋…„์ƒ)์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ์ฒœ์ฒด๋ฌผ๋ฆฌํ•™์ž, ํ–‰์„ฑ ๊ณผํ•™์ž, ์ž‘๊ฐ€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ณผํ•™ ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆ์ผ€์ดํ„ฐ๋กœ ํ˜„๋Œ€ ๊ณผํ•™ ๊ต์œก์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ž˜ ์•Œ๋ ค์ง„ ์ธ๋ฌผ ์ค‘ ํ•œ ๋ช…์ด ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ž์—ฐ์‚ฌ ๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€์˜ ํ—ค์ด๋“  ์ฒœ๋ฌธ๊ด€ ๊ด€์žฅ์œผ๋กœ์„œ, ํƒ€์ด์Šจ์€ ๋ณต์žกํ•œ ๊ณผํ•™ ๊ฐœ๋…์„ ๋Œ€์ค‘์—๊ฒŒ ์ ‘๊ทผ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ๋ฐ ๊ทธ์˜ ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ์„ ํ—Œ์‹ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ˆ˜๋งŽ์€ ์ฑ…์„ ์ €์ˆ ํ–ˆ๊ณ , TV ์‹œ๋ฆฌ์ฆˆ "์ฝ”์Šค๋ชจ์Šค: ์‹œ๊ณต๊ฐ„ ์˜ค๋””์„ธ์ด"๋ฅผ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์— ์ •๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ถœ์—ฐํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ณผํ•™ ์ฃผ์ œ๋ฅผ ๋…ผ์˜ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณผํ•™ ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆ์ผ€์ด์…˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ทธ์˜ ์นด๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ ‘๊ทผ๋ฒ•์€ ์ˆ˜๋ฐฑ๋งŒ ๋ช…์ด ์šฐ์ฃผ์™€ ๊ณผํ•™์  ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋” ๊นŠ์€ ์ดํ•ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐœ์ „์‹œํ‚ค๋„๋ก ์˜๊ฐ์„ ์ฃผ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


Neil deGrasse Tyson


The Power of Scientific Truth


"The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it." This statement by Neil deGrasse Tyson captures the fundamental nature of scientific knowledge—its objectivity and independence from human opinion. Unlike subjective beliefs or personal preferences, scientific facts exist independently of our acceptance or understanding of them. Gravity affects objects regardless of whether someone believes in it; evolution continues whether it's accepted or denied; climate change progresses based on physical laws, not public opinion. Tyson's quote emphasizes that science describes reality as it actually exists, not as we might wish it to be.


"๊ณผํ•™์˜ ์ข‹์€ ์ ์€ ๋‹น์‹ ์ด ๋ฏฟ๋“  ๋ฏฟ์ง€ ์•Š๋“  ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ง„์‹ค์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค." ๋‹ ๋””๊ทธ๋ž˜์Šค ํƒ€์ด์Šจ์˜ ์ด ์ง„์ˆ ์€ ๊ณผํ•™์  ์ง€์‹์˜ ๊ทผ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ๋ณธ์งˆ—์ธ๊ฐ„์˜ ์˜๊ฒฌ์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ์˜ ๊ฐ๊ด€์„ฑ๊ณผ ๋…๋ฆฝ์„ฑ—์„ ํฌ์ฐฉํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฃผ๊ด€์ ์ธ ์‹ ๋…์ด๋‚˜ ๊ฐœ์ธ์  ์„ ํ˜ธ์™€ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ, ๊ณผํ•™์  ์‚ฌ์‹ค์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ˆ˜์šฉ์ด๋‚˜ ์ดํ•ด์™€ ๋…๋ฆฝ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์กด์žฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ค‘๋ ฅ์€ ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ฏฟ๋Š”์ง€ ์—ฌ๋ถ€์™€ ๊ด€๊ณ„์—†์ด ๋ฌผ์ฒด์— ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น˜๊ณ , ์ง„ํ™”๋Š” ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์—ฌ์ง€๋“  ๊ฑฐ๋ถ€๋˜๋“  ๊ณ„์†๋˜๋ฉฐ, ๊ธฐํ›„ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋Š” ๋Œ€์ค‘์˜ ์˜๊ฒฌ์ด ์•„๋‹Œ ๋ฌผ๋ฆฌ ๋ฒ•์น™์— ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ํ•˜์—ฌ ์ง„ํ–‰๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํƒ€์ด์Šจ์˜ ์ธ์šฉ๋ฌธ์€ ๊ณผํ•™์ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋Š” ๋Œ€๋กœ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ์กด์žฌํ•˜๋Š” ํ˜„์‹ค์„ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


Science in the Age of Misinformation


Tyson's quote has become particularly relevant in our current era of information overload and widespread misinformation. In a time when social media can amplify false claims and conspiracy theories can gain traction, the objective nature of scientific truth serves as an anchor. The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated this principle clearly—the virus spread according to biological and epidemiological principles regardless of political beliefs or conspiracy theories. Tyson's perspective reminds us that while everyone is entitled to their own opinions, they are not entitled to their own facts. Science provides a methodology for distinguishing between what is demonstrably true and what is merely believed.


ํƒ€์ด์Šจ์˜ ์ธ์šฉ๋ฌธ์€ ์ •๋ณด ๊ณผ๋ถ€ํ•˜์™€ ๊ด‘๋ฒ”์œ„ํ•œ ์ž˜๋ชป๋œ ์ •๋ณด์˜ ํ˜„ ์‹œ๋Œ€์— ํŠนํžˆ ๊ด€๋ จ์ด ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์†Œ์…œ ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด๊ฐ€ ๊ฑฐ์ง“ ์ฃผ์žฅ์„ ์ฆํญ์‹œํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ณ  ์Œ๋ชจ๋ก ์ด ๊ฒฌ์ธ๋ ฅ์„ ์–ป์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์‹œ๋Œ€์—, ๊ณผํ•™์  ์ง„์‹ค์˜ ๊ฐ๊ด€์  ๋ณธ์งˆ์€ ๋‹ป ์—ญํ• ์„ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. COVID-19 ํŒฌ๋ฐ๋ฏน์€ ์ด ์›์น™์„ ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค—๋ฐ”์ด๋Ÿฌ์Šค๋Š” ์ •์น˜์  ์‹ ๋…์ด๋‚˜ ์Œ๋ชจ๋ก ๊ณผ ๊ด€๊ณ„์—†์ด ์ƒ๋ฌผํ•™์ , ์—ญํ•™์  ์›์น™์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ํ™•์‚ฐ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํƒ€์ด์Šจ์˜ ๊ด€์ ์€ ๋ชจ๋“  ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์˜๊ฒฌ์„ ๊ฐ€์งˆ ๊ถŒ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ž์‹ ๋งŒ์˜ ์‚ฌ์‹ค์„ ๊ฐ€์งˆ ๊ถŒ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์—†๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ƒ๊ธฐ์‹œํ‚ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณผํ•™์€ ์ž…์ฆ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ง„์‹ค์ธ ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ๋ฏฟ์–ด์ง€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊ตฌ๋ณ„ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•๋ก ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


Neil deGrasse Tyson


The Democratic Nature of Scientific Discovery


While science's truths are independent of belief, the process of scientific discovery is remarkably democratic. Science welcomes challenges, encourages skepticism, and rewards those who can disprove existing theories with better explanations. This self-correcting mechanism ensures that scientific knowledge continuously improves and refines itself. Tyson often emphasizes that science isn't a belief system but a method of inquiry that anyone can participate in, provided they follow the rules of evidence and logic. This accessibility makes science humanity's most reliable tool for understanding the universe, transcending cultural, religious, and political boundaries.


๊ณผํ•™์˜ ์ง„์‹ค์€ ์‹ ๋…๊ณผ ๋…๋ฆฝ์ ์ด์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ณผํ•™์  ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌ์˜ ๊ณผ์ •์€ ๋†€๋ž๋„๋ก ๋ฏผ์ฃผ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณผํ•™์€ ๋„์ „์„ ํ™˜์˜ํ•˜๊ณ , ํšŒ์˜๋ก ์„ ์žฅ๋ คํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๊ธฐ์กด ์ด๋ก ์„ ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ์„ค๋ช…์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ˜๋ฐ•ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋ณด์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ž๊ธฐ ๊ต์ • ๋ฉ”์ปค๋‹ˆ์ฆ˜์€ ๊ณผํ•™์  ์ง€์‹์ด ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐœ์„ ๋˜๊ณ  ์ •์ œ๋˜๋„๋ก ๋ณด์žฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํƒ€์ด์Šจ์€ ์ข…์ข… ๊ณผํ•™์ด ์‹ ๋… ์ฒด๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์™€ ๋…ผ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๊ทœ์น™์„ ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋Š” ํ•œ ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ๋‚˜ ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ํƒ๊ตฌ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ ‘๊ทผ์„ฑ์€ ๊ณผํ•™์„ ๋ฌธํ™”์ , ์ข…๊ต์ , ์ •์น˜์  ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ์ดˆ์›”ํ•˜์—ฌ ์šฐ์ฃผ๋ฅผ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ธ๋ฅ˜์˜ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์‹ ๋ขฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋„๊ตฌ๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“ญ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


Neil deGrasse Tyson



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