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You don’t want to raise a kid in a culture where the kid who asks the most questions is annoying. You want a culture where the kid who asks the most questions gets awards and gets another piece of cake.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind through the universe? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos. Have a nice day.
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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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The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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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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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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Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.
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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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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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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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Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.
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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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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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Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it’s not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.
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Why can’t we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What’s our excuse?
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