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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.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.
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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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To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.
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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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So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were ‘reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.’
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I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.
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If we have the power to turn another planet into Earth, then we have the power to turn Earth back into Earth.
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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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Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.
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After 50 years of television, there’s no other conclusion the aliens could draw, but that most humans are neurotic, death-hungry, dysfunctional idiots.
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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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In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
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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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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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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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