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Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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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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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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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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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Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
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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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The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
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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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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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Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.
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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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Part of knowing how to think is knowing how the laws of nature shape the world around us. Without that knowledge, without that capacity to think, you can easily become a victim of people who seek to take advantage of you.
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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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As they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion… Although just as in hostage negotiations, it’s probably best to keep both sides talking to each other.
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Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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