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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I object to religion in science classrooms not because it’s religion but because it’s not science.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Class Myself Object Religion Room Science
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
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
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
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
What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind through the universe? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos. Have a nice day.
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Cosmos Emotion Fragile Human Ignorance Journey Lesson Universe
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
If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.
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Academic Argument Better Job Need People
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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Fact Important Inspirational Motivational Ourselves Spiritual Universe
Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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Believe Fact True Yourself
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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God Ignorance Move Science Small Time
Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
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Amazing Day Mindset Surprise
In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
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Change Curiosity End People World
Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
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Close Pretend Reality
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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Education Empath Formal Imagination Reading Training Writing
Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
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Design Ignorance Intelligence Philosophy

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