When students cheat on exams, it’s because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONAfter 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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Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
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The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
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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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I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.
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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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Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can’t have a functioning democracy, if the electorate is under-informed or, worse, mis-informed.
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Aliens might be surprised to learn that in a cosmos with limitless starlight, humans kill for energy sources buried in the sand.
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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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If we have the power to turn another planet into Earth, then we have the power to turn Earth back into Earth.
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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 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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Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
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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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To learn more about science, turn off your electronic device and go outside and look around a bit. Nature is calling you. Go on. The internet will still be here.
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In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
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