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Hank Green Quotes

Total quotes: 115
“I have to do this. I have to write a book.”
— Hank Green, What It's Like Trying To Write A Book In 2019
Tagged: Politics, Twitter
“What did one eye say to the other eye? Between you and me, man, something smells.”
— Hank Green, 53 Terrible Jokes!
Tagged: nose, face
“You have to open to the idea that your beliefs might be false - because that's the only way that holding onto them can really mean anything.”
— Hank Green, Karl Popper, Science, and Pseudoscience: Crash Course Philosophy #8
Tagged: Beliefs
“Popper says that every false belief we discover is actually good, because that gets us that much closer to only true things.”
— Hank Green, Karl Popper, Science, and Pseudoscience: Crash Course Philosophy #8
Tagged: Beliefs
“How often do I make Chemistry jokes? Periodically. I actually told one the other day... There was no reaction.”
— Hank Green, 53 Terrible Jokes!
Tagged: Chemistry Jokes
“It has to be a mixed of dissatisfaction with the way that it is, and what could be better, and we have to work for that; and also recognizing that we've done a great deal of remarkable things, as a species and as individuals.”
— Hank Green, Never Satisfied: The Story of Humans |-/
Tagged: Progress, Contentment
“Maybe it's beautiful that we move on from our successes and immediately fret over the next giant, magnificent problem that we have to overcome.”
— Hank Green, Never Satisfied: The Story of Humans |-/
Tagged: Progress, Contentment
“Maybe that's good! that we're not designed to say, 'Well, I guess we've done pretty well. Might as well stop progressing.'”
— Hank Green, Never Satisfied: The Story of Humans |-/
Tagged: Progress, Contentment
“The other day at Taco Bell, the woman was like, 'Good morning'. It was like, four o'clock in the afternoon, and I was like, 'Not quite.' And then I felt a little bad about it 'cause she looked kind of embarrassed, so I was like, 'Well, don't worry about it, when I'm leaving, you will say, 'enjoy your meal', and I will say, 'you too', and then I will feel the way that you feel now.'”
— Hank Green, Awkward Stranger Conversations
Tagged: Encounters with Strangers, Funny Story
“If you wanna get an accurate picture of the kind of quality people exist, you gotta talk to strangers! Which is not normal advice. Don't get in their cars or anything.”
— Hank Green, Awkward Stranger Conversations
Tagged: Advice on Talking to Strangers
“We basically need every person on Earth to know about these goals because they are achievable and we can do this, but only if people hold their governments accountable, only if we care!”
— Hank Green, Pissed Off for a Better World
Tagged: Progress, Millenium Development Goals
“I want to be angry that children are dying, that gender inequality exists pretty much everywhere on Earth, that six million people will die this year because they don't have access to clean water! The world is messed up. But we have a plan.”
— Hank Green, Pissed Off for a Better World
Tagged: Progress, Millenium Development Goals
“We are cognitively biased to be both disinterested in and kind of skeptical of good news. Especially when that good news is so large scale that we can't really get emotionally involved in it.”
— Hank Green, Pissed Off for a Better World
Tagged: Progress
“It's very strange to me that one of the chief complaints of the older generation, this generation that worked so hard to make life easier for their kids, is that young people these days have it too easy, especially when it's increasingly clear that they don't.”
— Hank Green, Why the Word "Millennial" Makes me Cringe
Tagged: Generations
“Some of the problems are solved just by having a more informed populace.”
— Hank Green, Is School Broken?(Also...ANNOUNCEMENTS OF IMPORT)
Tagged: Argeement, Knowledge
“Some days, it seems to me like the purpose of life is to convert energy into beauty and I know that that's not... rationally true; but some days, it's okay for things to not be rationally true.”
— Hank Green, Thoughts from a Butterfly Hatch
Tagged: beauty, Life
“Disasters happen all at once! Successes happen slowly and gradually and they are interrupted by disasters, but they continue despite them!”
— Hank Green, Optimism is Not Insane
Tagged: Progress, Society, Social Problems
“Don't take other people's love for granted and don't assume that they know how you feel.”
— Hank Green, I Don't Understand My Life
Tagged: Telling Others You Love Them, Feelings, Mottos To live By
“The value that you bring to the world largely comes with what you love and who loves you.”
— Hank Green, I Don't Understand My Life
Tagged: Value, Personal Contribution, Life
“I kept thinking about... how a path is a communal creation created by thousands of footsteps of men and women and animals; about how a path indicates both a journey and a destination and how those things are always better if you have someone that you love to share them with.”
— Hank Green, THE EYE OF LONDON: Thoughts from Northern Montana
Tagged: Community, Surroundings
“What I love about Harry Potter is that unironic drive toward objective goodness.”
— Hank Green, Harry Potter vs. Science!
Tagged: Harry Potter, Community
“What I love about science is that enthusiastic, perpetual drive toward objective truth and understanding.”
— Hank Green, Harry Potter vs. Science!
Tagged: Science, definition
“What are we if not just a collection of hours and minutes and years and decades spent in doing stuff?”
— Hank Green, What's Up with Start Ups
Tagged: Time, Value, Life
“Instagram sold for a billion dollars and it has literally never made money. So they're buying something else; they're not buying the revenue or even the potential revenue. What is being valued there is the user: the person who spends time on this site.”
— Hank Green, What's Up with Start Ups
Tagged: Time, Value
“It doesn't seem like there's a huge amount of correlation between the amount of dollars delivered and the amount of value delivered, which is why I guess it makes sense that a lot of the best things in life are free.”
— Hank Green, The Cost of Fun
Tagged: Value, Best Things in Life
“Life is any system that continuously decreases its own entropy using energy around it.”
— Hank Green, Google Is Alive!
Tagged: Being Alive, Schrödinger
“Life wants. If thing x requires thing y in order to continue its existence, and thing x shows attempts to acquire thing y, then thing x, apparently wanting thing y, is alive.”
— Hank Green, Google Is Alive!
Tagged: Being Alive
“You don't know something if you simply stumbled into the right answer.”
— Hank Green, The Meaning of Knowledge: Crash Course Philosophy #7
Tagged: Knowledge
“You can't hate something if you're curious about it.”
— Hank Green, Curiosity is the Greatest Human Quality
Tagged: Education, Curiosity
“Education is about learning and about teaching and about knowing, but I think the most important piece of it is inspiring curiosity.”
— Hank Green, Curiosity is the Greatest Human Quality
Tagged: Education
“I guess that is like most important things, and also people: we aren't much unless you know our story.”
— Hank Green, ★★★★ Review: The TFiOS Bench- Amsterdam
Tagged: Story, Others
“The hard things are the ones that are most worth doing.”
— Hank Green, Should I Have a Baby?
Tagged: Being a Parent, Parenthood, Life
“Every piece of me unquestionably knows that being a dad is vitally important.”
— Hank Green, Should I Have a Baby?
Tagged: Being a Parent, Parenthood
“When you have a human being who's depending on you for everything, feeling like you can't do it is a feeling of tremendous failure, even when it's fleeting, even when you know it's not true. I think everybody experiences this, and it's just one of those 'it gets better' situations.”
— Hank Green, Should I Have a Baby?
Tagged: Being a Parent
“Nothing impacts life on earth today more than humanity does.”
— Hank Green, The History of Life on Earth- Crash Course Ecology #1
Tagged: Earth, humanity
“Philosophers spend a lot of time obsessing about knowledge, wishing they knew more, and worrying that they're wrong about what they think they know.”
— Hank Green, Cartesian Skepticism- Neo, Meet Rene: Crash Course Philosophy #5
Tagged: Knowledge, Philosophers
“Going from the darkness into the light is both disorienting and rewarding.”
— Hank Green, Leonardo DiCaprio & The Nature of Reality: Crash Course Philosophy #4
Tagged: Plato, Allegory of the Cave, Knowledge
“Our mistake is thinking that the material objects of the ordinary world are the most real things.”
— Hank Green, Leonardo DiCaprio & The Nature of Reality: Crash Course Philosophy #4
Tagged: Material Things
“The future doesn't always resemble the past. And every pattern has its outliers. So induction always has the potential to produce false results.”
— Hank Green, How to Argue- Induction & Abduction: Crash Course Philosophy #3
Tagged: Inductive Reasoning, Predicting The Future
“If you possess any ability to predict the future, it lies in your ability to reason inductively. Inductive reasoning relies on the predictability of nature to reveal that the future is likely to resemble the past, often in important ways.”
— Hank Green, How to Argue- Induction & Abduction: Crash Course Philosophy #3
Tagged: Inductive Reasoning, Predicting The Future
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