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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.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

What I’m saying is, when different experiments give you the same result, it is no longer subject to your opinion. That’s the good thing about science: It’s true whether or not you believe in it. That’s why it works.
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Believe Different Experiment Result True Work Yourself
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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Cosmos Learning Limitation Sand Surprise
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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Build Display Entertainment God Humor Ourselves System
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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Cosmos Emotion Fragile Human Ignorance Journey Lesson Universe
When we try to look farther into the universe we come to what appears to be the end of space but actually it’s the beginning of time.
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Appearance Beginning Time Try Universe
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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End Environment Issues Nature Science
It’s better to understand something than to memorize something.
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Better Choice Remember Understand
Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
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Amazing Day Mindset Surprise
I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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History Human Ignorance Myself Time
Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
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Beyond Empowerment Thinking
Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.
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Enlightenment Imagination Objection Truth
The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
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Be Yourself Greatness Inspirational Motivational People Society Version
The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
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Believe Goodness Science True Yourself
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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Education Empath Formal Imagination Reading Training Writing
I object to religion in science classrooms not because it’s religion but because it’s not science.
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Class Myself Object Religion Room Science
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.
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Best Common Current Ground Practice

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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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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