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.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONFacts are true whether or not you believe them.
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Claiming there is no other life in the universe is like scooping up some water, looking at the cup and claiming there are no whales in the ocean.
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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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The day that you stop looking – because you’re content God did it – I don’t need you in the lab. You’re useless on the frontier of understanding the nature of the world.
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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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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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Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
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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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Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.
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Curiously, light-loving green plants reject the Sun’s green light, reflecting it back at you, which is why they look green.
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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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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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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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The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
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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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If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it’s not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.
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