Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONWe 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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To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.
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As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.
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Why can’t we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What’s our excuse?
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Perhaps we’ve never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon earth and decided there’s no sign of intelligent life.
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We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
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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 love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
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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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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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In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
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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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Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
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I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.
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There is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.
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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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