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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

As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters 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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Build Display Entertainment God Humor Ourselves System
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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Desperate Opinion True Truth Yourself
Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine.
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Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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Today, scientists sound the alarm on other environmental dangers. Vested interests still hire their own scientists to confuse the issue. But in the end, nature, will not be fooled.
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Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.
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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.
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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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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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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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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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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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I don’t want people to say, ‘Something is true because Tyson says it is true.’ That’s not critical thinking.
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For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.
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