Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONImagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine.
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The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
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Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.
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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
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Practically every food you buy in a store for consumption by humans is genetically modified food. There are no wild, seedless watermelons. There’s no wild cows.
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To learn more about science, turn off your electronic device and go outside and look around a bit. Nature is calling you. Go on. The internet will still be here.
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When a coincidence seems amazing, that’s because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.
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When students cheat on exams, it’s because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
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If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.
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Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
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If you’re really successful at bullshitting, it means you’re not hanging around enough people smarter than you.
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There’s a saying in the scientific community, that every great truth goes through three phases. First, people deny it. Second, they say that it conflicts with the Bible. Third, they say that they’ve known it all along.
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Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the assumption that nobody is smart enough to figure out the answer to a problem.
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As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.
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When we try to look farther into the universe we come to what appears to be the end of space but actually it’s the beginning of time.
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