Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONScience literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
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Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.
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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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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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When we try to look farther into the universe we come to what appears to be the end of space but actually it’s the beginning of time.
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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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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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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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God displayed a sense of humor when he configured the region between our legs an entertainment complex built around a sewage system.
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I object to religion in science classrooms not because it’s religion but because it’s not science.
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When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
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We live in a world where not everyone has the urge to help others. It is OK to encourage others to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, but if you do, just remember that some people have no boots.
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The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
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Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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