I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people’s politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONThe theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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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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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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I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
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Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine.
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Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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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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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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The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
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I object to religion in science classrooms not because it’s religion but because it’s not science.
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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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The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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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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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
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