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.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONCuriously, 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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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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As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.
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Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
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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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Aliens might be surprised to learn that in a cosmos with limitless starlight, humans kill for energy sources buried in the sand.
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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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The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
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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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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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Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
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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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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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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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