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Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Why can’t we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What’s our excuse?
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Courage Generation Ourselves
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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Build Discover Philosophy Problem Program Science Smart
We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
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Biology Connection Deep Each Other Earth Science Universe
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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Children Learning Life Talk Walk Wrong
My goal is not to shove information into your head. It’s to find ways to reignite the curiosity that we all had as children for the natural world. You don’t have to tell a child to explore the backyard.
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Children Exploration Goal Head Ignition Information Yourself
Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
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Close Pretend Reality
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
The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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Evolution Gravity Science Theory
The molecules that comprise our body are traceable to the crucibles of the centers of stars.These atoms and molecules are in us because, in fact, the universe is in us. And, we are not only figuratively, but literally, stardust.
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Body Literature Stardom Universe
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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Dreams People Politics Thinking True Truth World
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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Democracy Information Upset Yourself
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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End Environment Issues Nature Science
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
Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.
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Idiot Nation One Liner Politics Stupidity Transformation
I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
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Learning Love Myself Wrong
We live in a world where not everyone has the urge to help others. It is OK to encourage others to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, but if you do, just remember that some people have no boots.
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Encouragement Live Need People World

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