As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONYou 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.
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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 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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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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The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
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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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The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
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God displayed a sense of humor when he configured the region between our legs an entertainment complex built around a sewage system.
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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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If you’re really successful at bullshitting, it means you’re not hanging around enough people smarter than you.
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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
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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 literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
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