Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONIt’s better to understand something than to memorize something.
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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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In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
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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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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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We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
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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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I object to religion in science classrooms not because it’s religion but because it’s not science.
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Why can’t we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What’s our excuse?
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The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
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Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
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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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Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
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So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were ‘reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.’
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Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.
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