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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.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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
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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Desperate Opinion True Truth Yourself
The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
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Instagram Captions Obligation Sense Understand Universe Yourself
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
We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
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Biology Connection Deep Each Other Earth Science Universe
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
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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Earth Old Thinking Universe
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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Community Greatness People Science Truth
Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
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Amazing Day Mindset Surprise
Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
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Flow Literature Problem Science Solution
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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Curiosity Light Plant Reflection Rejection Yourself
As they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion… Although just as in hostage negotiations, it’s probably best to keep both sides talking to each other.
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Best Common Current Ground Practice
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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Cosmos Emotion Fragile Human Ignorance Journey Lesson Universe
As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.
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Area Ignorance Knowledge
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
In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
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Change Curiosity End People World

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