When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONWe 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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No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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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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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
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If you’re really successful at bullshitting, it means you’re not hanging around enough people smarter than you.
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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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If each dead person became a ghost, there’d be more than 100 billion of them haunting us all. Creepy, but cool.
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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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I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
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Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
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Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
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Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.
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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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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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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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