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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.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.
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Area Ignorance Knowledge
I don’t want people to say, ‘Something is true because Tyson says it is true.’ That’s not critical thinking.
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Criticism People Thinking Truth
What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind through the universe? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos. Have a nice day.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Cosmos Emotion Fragile Human Ignorance Journey Lesson Universe
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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Alien Close Earth Examination Fact Human Intelligence Life
Today, scientists sound the alarm on other environmental dangers. Vested interests still hire their own scientists to confuse the issue. But in the end, nature, will not be fooled.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

End Environment Issues Nature Science
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.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Buy Food Human Store Wild Yourself
Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Close Pretend Reality
We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Biology Connection Deep Each Other Earth Science Universe
There’s a saying in the scientific community, that every great truth goes through three phases. First, people deny it. Second, they say that it conflicts with the Bible. Third, they say that they’ve known it all along.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Community Greatness People Science Truth
Part of knowing how to think is knowing how the laws of nature shape the world around us. Without that knowledge, without that capacity to think, you can easily become a victim of people who seek to take advantage of you.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Capacity Law Nature People Seek Thinking Victim Yourself
If we have the power to turn another planet into Earth, then we have the power to turn Earth back into Earth.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Earth Inspirational Motivational Planet Power
Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Ignorance Literature Science World Yourself
If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Affect Belief Decision People Reality System Yourself
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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Build Discover Philosophy Problem Program Science Smart
I object to religion in science classrooms not because it’s religion but because it’s not science.
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Class Myself Object Religion Room Science
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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Goodness Literature Mathematics Myself People Reading

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