I object to religion in science classrooms not because it’s religion but because it’s not science.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONWe are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
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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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The molecules that comprise our body are traceable to the crucibles of the centers of stars.These atoms and molecules are in us because, in fact, the universe is in us. And, we are not only figuratively, but literally, stardust.
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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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No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
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Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
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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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Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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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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The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
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When students cheat on exams, it’s because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
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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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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.
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I wonder if, in fact, we have been observed by aliens and upon close examination of human conduct and human behavior they have concluded that there is no sign of intelligent life on Earth.
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Aliens might be surprised to learn that in a cosmos with limitless starlight, humans kill for energy sources buried in the sand.
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It’s better to understand something than to memorize something.
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