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If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it’s not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

If 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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Cool Death Each Other Ghost Haunt
The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
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Be Yourself Greatness Inspirational Motivational People Society Version
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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Buy Food Human Store Wild 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
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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Decision Disaster Future Literature Office People Politics Recipe Vote
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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Alien Close Earth Examination Fact Human Intelligence Life
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
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
In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
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Change Curiosity End People World
Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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Believe Fact True Yourself
Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.
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Enlightenment Imagination Objection Truth
I object to religion in science classrooms not because it’s religion but because it’s not science.
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Class Myself Object Religion Room Science
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
I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.
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Best Children Myself Raise Simplicity Thinking Way
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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Cosmos Learning Limitation Sand Surprise
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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Life Ocean Universe Water

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