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?
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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In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
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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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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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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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Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
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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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Aliens might be surprised to learn that in a cosmos with limitless starlight, humans kill for energy sources buried in the sand.
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Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
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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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Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.
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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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We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
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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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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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