Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
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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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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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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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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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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Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
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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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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 your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.
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Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.
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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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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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You can’t have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That’s a recipe for disaster. And I don’t mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.
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Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
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Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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