The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONImagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.
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I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
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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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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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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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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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When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
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Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
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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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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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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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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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Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.
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Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine.
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Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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