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Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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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Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
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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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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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In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
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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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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 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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If factual information upsets you, then you are creating a world that is not embracing objective truths, and that’s not how you advance a democracy.
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To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.
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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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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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The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would be inexcusably egocentric of us to suggest that we’re alone in the universe.
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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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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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