Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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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Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
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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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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 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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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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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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The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can’t have a functioning democracy, if the electorate is under-informed or, worse, mis-informed.
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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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I object to religion in science classrooms not because it’s religion but because it’s not science.
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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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Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
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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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For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.
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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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