If factual information upsets you, then you are creating a world that is not embracing objective truths, and that’s not how you advance a democracy.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONI know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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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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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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If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it’s not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.
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The day that you stop looking – because you’re content God did it – I don’t need you in the lab. You’re useless on the frontier of understanding the nature of the world.
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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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Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.
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We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.
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It’s better to understand something than to memorize something.
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Perhaps we’ve never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon earth and decided there’s no sign of intelligent life.
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In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
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I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.
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After 50 years of television, there’s no other conclusion the aliens could draw, but that most humans are neurotic, death-hungry, dysfunctional idiots.
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Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.
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