When students cheat on exams, it’s because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONWhen students cheat on exams, it’s because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
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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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Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
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Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.
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Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.
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I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
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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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When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
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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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Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
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So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were ‘reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.’
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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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God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that’s getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.
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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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