The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would be inexcusably egocentric of us to suggest that we’re alone in the universe.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONIf your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.
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There’s a saying in the scientific community, that every great truth goes through three phases. First, people deny it. Second, they say that it conflicts with the Bible. Third, they say that they’ve known it all along.
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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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Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.
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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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Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.
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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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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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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 object to religion in science classrooms not because it’s religion but because it’s not science.
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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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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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We spend the first year of a child’s life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There’s something wrong there.
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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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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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Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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