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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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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Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
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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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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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We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
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The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
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The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would be inexcusably egocentric of us to suggest that we’re alone in the universe.
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Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
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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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Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.
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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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You don’t want to raise a kid in a culture where the kid who asks the most questions is annoying. You want a culture where the kid who asks the most questions gets awards and gets another piece of cake.
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The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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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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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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