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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.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
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Congratulation Curiosity People Success Time
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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Encouragement Live Need People World
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
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
The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
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Be Yourself Greatness Inspirational Motivational People Society Version
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.
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Alien Close Earth Examination Fact Human Intelligence Life
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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Perhaps we’ve never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon earth and decided there’s no sign of intelligent life.
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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
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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Education Empath Formal Imagination Reading Training Writing
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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Courage Generation Ourselves
The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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Evolution Gravity Science Theory
Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
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Amazing Day Mindset Surprise
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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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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The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would be inexcusably egocentric of us to suggest that we’re alone in the universe.
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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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