The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONWhen scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
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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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We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
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No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
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In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
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Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.
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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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Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
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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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It’s better to understand something than to memorize something.
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To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.
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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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Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
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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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