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I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people’s politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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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 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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Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the assumption that nobody is smart enough to figure out the answer to a problem.
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Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
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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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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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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 theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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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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I don’t want people to say, ‘Something is true because Tyson says it is true.’ That’s not critical thinking.
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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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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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Curiously, 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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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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