Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONThe theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.
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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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My goal is not to shove information into your head. It’s to find ways to reignite the curiosity that we all had as children for the natural world. You don’t have to tell a child to explore the backyard.
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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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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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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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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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Perhaps we’ve never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon earth and decided there’s no sign of intelligent life.
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Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
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The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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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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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
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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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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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