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.
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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Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
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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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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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Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.
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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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Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can’t have a functioning democracy, if the electorate is under-informed or, worse, mis-informed.
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It’s better to understand something than to memorize something.
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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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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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Curiously, light-loving green plants reject the Sun’s green light, reflecting it back at you, which is why they look green.
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Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.
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Why can’t we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What’s our excuse?
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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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I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.
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As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.
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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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The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
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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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Claiming there is no other life in the universe is like scooping up some water, looking at the cup and claiming there are no whales in the ocean.
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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 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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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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If we have the power to turn another planet into Earth, then we have the power to turn Earth back into Earth.
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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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