To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONIntelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
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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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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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In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
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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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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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I don’t want people to say, ‘Something is true because Tyson says it is true.’ That’s not critical thinking.
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Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
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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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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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Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.
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The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.
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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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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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