If factual information upsets you, then you are creating a world that is not embracing objective truths, and that’s not how you advance a democracy.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONMath is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.
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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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I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.
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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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Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
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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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Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.
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Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
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To learn more about science, turn off your electronic device and go outside and look around a bit. Nature is calling you. Go on. The internet will still be here.
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Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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Science 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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Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
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You can’t have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That’s a recipe for disaster. And I don’t mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.
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The day that you stop looking – because you’re content God did it – I don’t need you in the lab. You’re useless on the frontier of understanding the nature of the world.
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The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
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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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