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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.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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
The molecules that comprise our body are traceable to the crucibles of the centers of stars.These atoms and molecules are in us because, in fact, the universe is in us. And, we are not only figuratively, but literally, stardust.
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Body Literature Stardom Universe
In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
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Change Curiosity End People World
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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Curiosity Light Plant Reflection Rejection Yourself
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.
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Drive Philosophy Suffering Surprise World Yourself
Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
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Amazing Day Mindset Surprise
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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God Ignorance Move Science Small Time
When students cheat on exams, it’s because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
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Cheating Exam Learning Student Value
We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
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Biology Connection Deep Each Other Earth Science Universe
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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Cool Death Each Other Ghost Haunt
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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Earth Inspirational Motivational Planet Power
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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Cosmos Learning Limitation Sand Surprise
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.
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Capacity Law Nature People Seek Thinking Victim Yourself
Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine.
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Enough Imagination Nature Reality Wonderful
God displayed a sense of humor when he configured the region between our legs an entertainment complex built around a sewage system.
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Build Display Entertainment God Humor Ourselves System
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.
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Cosmos Emotion Fragile Human Ignorance Journey Lesson Universe

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