The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONIf 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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Practically every food you buy in a store for consumption by humans is genetically modified food. There are no wild, seedless watermelons. There’s no wild cows.
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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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To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.
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If we have the power to turn another planet into Earth, then we have the power to turn Earth back into Earth.
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Somehow it’s O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, ‘I never learned to read,’ they’d say I was an illiterate dolt.
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When a coincidence seems amazing, that’s because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.
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It’s better to understand something than to memorize something.
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Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine.
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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it’s not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.
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You can’t have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That’s a recipe for disaster. And I don’t mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.
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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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Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
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When students cheat on exams, it’s because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
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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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