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.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONIf 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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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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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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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
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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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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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Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.
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Aliens might be surprised to learn that in a cosmos with limitless starlight, humans kill for energy sources buried in the sand.
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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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To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.
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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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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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In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
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Claiming there is no other life in the universe is like scooping up some water, looking at the cup and claiming there are no whales in the ocean.
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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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