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To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
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Amazing Day Mindset Surprise
To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.
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Empowerment Literature Science Yourself
Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
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Design Ignorance Intelligence Philosophy
When a coincidence seems amazing, that’s because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.
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Human Mathematics Mindset Natural Probability Statistics
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
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
After 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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Alien Death Human Hungry Idiot
We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.
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Fact Important Inspirational Motivational Ourselves Spiritual Universe
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
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
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
As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.
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Area Ignorance Knowledge
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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Children Learning Life Talk Walk Wrong
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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Fundamental Information Knowledge Natural World
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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Democracy Information Upset Yourself
When we try to look farther into the universe we come to what appears to be the end of space but actually it’s the beginning of time.
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Appearance Beginning Time Try Universe

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