No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
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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When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
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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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Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
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Claiming there is no other life in the universe is like scooping up some water, looking at the cup and claiming there are no whales in the ocean.
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God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that’s getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.
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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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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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Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.
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It’s better to understand something than to memorize something.
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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.
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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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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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Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
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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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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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