We live in a world where not everyone has the urge to help others. It is OK to encourage others to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, but if you do, just remember that some people have no boots.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONPractically 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 Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
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Curiously, light-loving green plants reject the Sun’s green light, reflecting it back at you, which is why they look green.
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If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it’s not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.
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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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Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.
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Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
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Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
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I object to religion in science classrooms not because it’s religion but because it’s not science.
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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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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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One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.
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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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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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Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
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Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
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