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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were ‘reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.’
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What I’m saying is, when different experiments give you the same result, it is no longer subject to your opinion. That’s the good thing about science: It’s true whether or not you believe in it. That’s why it works.
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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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Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
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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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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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I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
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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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Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
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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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We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.
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Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
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When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
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Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
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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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When a coincidence seems amazing, that’s because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.
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