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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.’

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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
The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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Evolution Gravity Science Theory
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
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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Earth Inspirational Motivational Planet Power
The molecules that comprise our body are traceable to the crucibles of the centers of stars.These atoms and molecules are in us because, in fact, the universe is in us. And, we are not only figuratively, but literally, stardust.
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Body Literature Stardom Universe
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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Fact Important Inspirational Motivational Ourselves Spiritual Universe
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
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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Education Empath Formal Imagination Reading Training Writing
I object to religion in science classrooms not because it’s religion but because it’s not science.
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Class Myself Object Religion Room Science
If each dead person became a ghost, there’d be more than 100 billion of them haunting us all. Creepy, but cool.
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Cool Death Each Other Ghost Haunt
What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind through the universe? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos. Have a nice day.
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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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Earth Fantasy Intelligence Life Rejection Visit
In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
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Change Curiosity End People World
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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God Ignorance Move Science Small Time
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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Affect Belief Decision People Reality System Yourself

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