Practically every food you buy in a store for consumption by humans is genetically modified food. There are no wild, seedless watermelons. There’s no wild cows.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONAliens 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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I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.
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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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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
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Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the assumption that nobody is smart enough to figure out the answer to a problem.
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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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I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
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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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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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Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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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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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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Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.
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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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The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
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Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
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