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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.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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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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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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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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Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
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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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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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Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.
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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 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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We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
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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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If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.
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Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
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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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If you’re really successful at bullshitting, it means you’re not hanging around enough people smarter than you.
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