As they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion… Although just as in hostage negotiations, it’s probably best to keep both sides talking to each other.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONClaiming 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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Today, scientists sound the alarm on other environmental dangers. Vested interests still hire their own scientists to confuse the issue. But in the end, nature, will not be fooled.
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It’s better to understand something than to memorize something.
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I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
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Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.
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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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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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The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
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Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
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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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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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Why can’t we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What’s our excuse?
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I wonder if, in fact, we have been observed by aliens and upon close examination of human conduct and human behavior they have concluded that there is no sign of intelligent life on Earth.
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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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