If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it’s not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONI think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.
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Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.
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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.
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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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If each dead person became a ghost, there’d be more than 100 billion of them haunting us all. Creepy, but cool.
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Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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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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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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It’s better to understand something than to memorize something.
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We spend the first year of a child’s life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There’s something wrong there.
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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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Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.
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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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If you’re really successful at bullshitting, it means you’re not hanging around enough people smarter than you.
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Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
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In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
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