When students cheat on exams, it’s because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONScience literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
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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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I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
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To learn more about science, turn off your electronic device and go outside and look around a bit. Nature is calling you. Go on. The internet will still be here.
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No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
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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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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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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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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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Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
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The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
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Part of knowing how to think is knowing how the laws of nature shape the world around us. Without that knowledge, without that capacity to think, you can easily become a victim of people who seek to take advantage of 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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If you’re really successful at bullshitting, it means you’re not hanging around enough people smarter than you.
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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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I wonder if, in fact, we have been observed by aliens and upon close examination of human conduct and human behavior they have concluded that there is no sign of intelligent life on Earth.
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