After 50 years of television, there’s no other conclusion the aliens could draw, but that most humans are neurotic, death-hungry, dysfunctional idiots.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONWhen scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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What I’m saying is, when different experiments give you the same result, it is no longer subject to your opinion. That’s the good thing about science: It’s true whether or not you believe in it. That’s why it works.
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Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
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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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Claiming there is no other life in the universe is like scooping up some water, looking at the cup and claiming there are no whales in the ocean.
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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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To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.
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You can’t have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That’s a recipe for disaster. And I don’t mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.
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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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When students cheat on exams, it’s because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
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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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We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
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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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Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.
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