Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONIn the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
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God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that’s getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.
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Intelligent design is a philosophy of 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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I object to religion in science classrooms not because it’s religion but because it’s not science.
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The day that you stop looking – because you’re content God did it – I don’t need you in the lab. You’re useless on the frontier of understanding the nature of the world.
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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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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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We spend the first year of a child’s life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There’s something wrong there.
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As they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion… Although just as in hostage negotiations, it’s probably best to keep both sides talking to each other.
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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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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
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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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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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My goal is not to shove information into your head. It’s to find ways to reignite the curiosity that we all had as children for the natural world. You don’t have to tell a child to explore the backyard.
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