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If you’re really successful at bullshitting, it means you’re not hanging around enough people smarter than you.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Close Pretend Reality
Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
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Amazing Day Mindset Surprise
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
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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God Need Satisfaction Stop Understand World
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
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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Children Learning Life Talk Walk Wrong
I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
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Learning Love Myself Wrong
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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Earth Inspirational Motivational Planet Power
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
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
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
There’s a saying in the scientific community, that every great truth goes through three phases. First, people deny it. Second, they say that it conflicts with the Bible. Third, they say that they’ve known it all along.
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Community Greatness People Science Truth
So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were ‘reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.’
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Education Empath Formal Imagination Reading Training Writing
Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
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Design Ignorance Intelligence Philosophy
As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.
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Area Ignorance Knowledge
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

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