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Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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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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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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We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
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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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It’s better to understand something than to memorize something.
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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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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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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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Aliens might be surprised to learn that in a cosmos with limitless starlight, humans kill for energy sources buried in the sand.
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We spend the first year of a child’s life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There’s something wrong there.
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Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.
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You can’t have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That’s a recipe for disaster. And I don’t mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.
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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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I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.
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