If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONIf your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.
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Why can’t we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What’s our excuse?
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Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
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Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
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For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.
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The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would be inexcusably egocentric of us to suggest that we’re alone in the universe.
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We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
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No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
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You don’t want to raise a kid in a culture where the kid who asks the most questions is annoying. You want a culture where the kid who asks the most questions gets awards and gets another piece of cake.
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Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
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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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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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Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
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Claiming there is no other life in the universe is like scooping up some water, looking at the cup and claiming there are no whales in the ocean.
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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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God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that’s getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.
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