I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONOur nation is turning into an idiocracy.
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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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We live in a world where not everyone has the urge to help others. It is OK to encourage others to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, but if you do, just remember that some people have no boots.
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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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When students cheat on exams, it’s because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
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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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After 50 years of television, there’s no other conclusion the aliens could draw, but that most humans are neurotic, death-hungry, dysfunctional idiots.
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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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As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.
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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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If factual information upsets you, then you are creating a world that is not embracing objective truths, and that’s not how you advance a democracy.
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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
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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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Why can’t we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What’s our excuse?
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