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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.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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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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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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Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
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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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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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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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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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To learn more about science, turn off your electronic device and go outside and look around a bit. Nature is calling you. Go on. The internet will still be here.
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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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To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.
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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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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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Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.
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Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
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Part of knowing how to think is knowing how the laws of nature shape the world around us. Without that knowledge, without that capacity to think, you can easily become a victim of people who seek to take advantage of you.
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