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.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONSomehow it’s O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, ‘I never learned to read,’ they’d say I was an illiterate dolt.
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The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine.
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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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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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Part of knowing how to think is knowing how the laws of nature shape the world around us. Without that knowledge, without that capacity to think, you can easily become a victim of people who seek to take advantage of you.
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If each dead person became a ghost, there’d be more than 100 billion of them haunting us all. Creepy, but cool.
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God displayed a sense of humor when he configured the region between our legs an entertainment complex built around a sewage system.
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In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
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I object to religion in science classrooms not because it’s religion but because it’s not science.
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If we have the power to turn another planet into Earth, then we have the power to turn Earth back into Earth.
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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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It’s better to understand something than to memorize something.
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I wonder if, in fact, we have been observed by aliens and upon close examination of human conduct and human behavior they have concluded that there is no sign of intelligent life on Earth.
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One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.
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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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