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The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
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Believe Goodness Science True Yourself
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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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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You don’t want to raise a kid in a culture where the kid who asks the most questions is annoying. You want a culture where the kid who asks the most questions gets awards and gets another piece of cake.
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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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Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
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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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Believe Different Experiment Result True Work Yourself
We live in a world where not everyone has the urge to help others. It is OK to encourage others to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, but if you do, just remember that some people have no boots.
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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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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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Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
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You can’t have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That’s a recipe for disaster. And I don’t mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.
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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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Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.
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We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.
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The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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Evolution Gravity Science Theory
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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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.
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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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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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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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We spend the first year of a child’s life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There’s something wrong there.
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Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
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Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
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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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