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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would be inexcusably egocentric of us to suggest that we’re alone in the universe.
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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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When we try to look farther into the universe we come to what appears to be the end of space but actually it’s the beginning of time.
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For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.
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In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
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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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Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
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