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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

I object to religion in science classrooms not because it’s religion but because it’s not science.
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Class Myself Object Religion Room Science
The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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Evolution Gravity Science Theory
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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Affect Belief Decision People Reality System Yourself
Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
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Flow Literature Problem Science Solution
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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Device Internet Learning Science
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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Alien Death Human Hungry Idiot
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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Buy Food Human Store Wild Yourself
Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.
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Enlightenment Imagination Objection Truth
Part of knowing how to think is knowing how the laws of nature shape the world around us. Without that knowledge, without that capacity to think, you can easily become a victim of people who seek to take advantage of you.
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Capacity Law Nature People Seek Thinking Victim Yourself
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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Ignorance Problem Shame Thinking Unknown
When students cheat on exams, it’s because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
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Cheating Exam Learning Student Value
When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
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Believe Blind Decline Investigation Natural Science See World Worst
Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
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Amazing Day Mindset Surprise
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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Fundamental Information Knowledge Natural World
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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Fact Important Inspirational Motivational Ourselves Spiritual Universe
I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
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Learning Love Myself Wrong

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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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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