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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.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

There is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.
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Ignorance Problem Shame Thinking Unknown
Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.
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Enlightenment Imagination Objection Truth
Curiously, light-loving green plants reject the Sun’s green light, reflecting it back at you, which is why they look green.
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Curiosity Light Plant Reflection Rejection Yourself
Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
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Flow Literature Problem Science Solution
Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
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Close Pretend Reality
My goal is not to shove information into your head. It’s to find ways to reignite the curiosity that we all had as children for the natural world. You don’t have to tell a child to explore the backyard.
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Children Exploration Goal Head Ignition Information Yourself
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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Capacity Law Nature People Seek Thinking Victim Yourself
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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Build Discover Philosophy Problem Program Science Smart
If you’re really successful at bullshitting, it means you’re not hanging around enough people smarter than you.
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Enough People Smart Success Yourself
Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
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Congratulation Curiosity People Success Time
When a coincidence seems amazing, that’s because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.
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Human Mathematics Mindset Natural Probability Statistics
Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can’t have a functioning democracy, if the electorate is under-informed or, worse, mis-informed.
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Fundamental Information Knowledge Natural World
Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
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Amazing Day Mindset Surprise
When students cheat on exams, it’s because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
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Cheating Exam Learning Student Value
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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Ideas Life Mindset Open Yourself
We live in a world where not everyone has the urge to help others. It is OK to encourage others to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, but if you do, just remember that some people have no boots.
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Encouragement Live Need People World

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