God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that’s getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONWhen scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
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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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The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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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 know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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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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If factual information upsets you, then you are creating a world that is not embracing objective truths, and that’s not how you advance a democracy.
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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
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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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Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
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Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.
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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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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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Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the assumption that nobody is smart enough to figure out the answer to a problem.
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I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
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