Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONScience is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the assumption that nobody is smart enough to figure out the answer to a problem.
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I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.
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Why can’t we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What’s our excuse?
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Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.
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The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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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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As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.
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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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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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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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It’s better to understand something than to memorize something.
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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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Somehow it’s O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, ‘I never learned to read,’ they’d say I was an illiterate dolt.
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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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Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine.
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