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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.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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 TYSON

Democracy Information Upset Yourself
What I’m saying is, when different experiments give you the same result, it is no longer subject to your opinion. That’s the good thing about science: It’s true whether or not you believe in it. That’s why it works.
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Believe Different Experiment Result True Work Yourself
Perhaps we’ve never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon earth and decided there’s no sign of intelligent life.
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Earth Fantasy Intelligence Life Rejection Visit
If you’re really successful at bullshitting, it means you’re not hanging around enough people smarter than you.
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Enough People Smart Success Yourself
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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Annoy Change Children Culture Food Pieces Question Reward Rise Yourself
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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Alien Death Human Hungry Idiot
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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Ideas Life Mindset Open Yourself
No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
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Curious Dumb Live People Yourself
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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Goodness Literature Mathematics Myself People Reading
Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
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Close Pretend Reality
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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Affect Belief Decision People Reality System Yourself
Curiously, light-loving green plants reject the Sun’s green light, reflecting it back at you, which is why they look green.
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Curiosity Light Plant Reflection Rejection Yourself
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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Children Learning Life Talk Walk Wrong
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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Cosmos Emotion Fragile Human Ignorance Journey Lesson Universe
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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Build Discover Philosophy Problem Program Science Smart
When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
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Believe Blind Decline Investigation Natural Science See World Worst

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