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Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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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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I don’t want people to say, ‘Something is true because Tyson says it is true.’ That’s not critical thinking.
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So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were ‘reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.’
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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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When a coincidence seems amazing, that’s because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.
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Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
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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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I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people’s politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.
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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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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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If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.
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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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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
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Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.
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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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Today, scientists sound the alarm on other environmental dangers. Vested interests still hire their own scientists to confuse the issue. But in the end, nature, will not be fooled.
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