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

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
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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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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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When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
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One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.
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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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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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As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.
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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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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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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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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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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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Today, scientists sound the alarm on other environmental dangers. Vested interests still hire their own scientists to confuse the issue. But in the end, nature, will not be fooled.
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Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
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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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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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To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.
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Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
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Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine.
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The day that you stop looking – because you’re content God did it – I don’t need you in the lab. You’re useless on the frontier of understanding the nature of the world.
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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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Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.
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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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The molecules that comprise our body are traceable to the crucibles of the centers of stars.These atoms and molecules are in us because, in fact, the universe is in us. And, we are not only figuratively, but literally, stardust.
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