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.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONAs 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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I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people’s politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.
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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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The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
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The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
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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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To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.
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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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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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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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There is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.
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When we try to look farther into the universe we come to what appears to be the end of space but actually it’s the beginning of time.
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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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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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