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.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONThe good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
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If we have the power to turn another planet into Earth, then we have the power to turn Earth back into Earth.
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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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Practically every food you buy in a store for consumption by humans is genetically modified food. There are no wild, seedless watermelons. There’s no wild cows.
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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 think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.
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Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
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The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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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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I wonder if, in fact, we have been observed by aliens and upon close examination of human conduct and human behavior they have concluded that there is no sign of intelligent life on Earth.
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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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Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
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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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We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.
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We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
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