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Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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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When a coincidence seems amazing, that’s because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.
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If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it’s not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.
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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
Somehow it’s O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, ‘I never learned to read,’ they’d say I was an illiterate dolt.
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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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There is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.
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One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.
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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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Earth Old Thinking Universe
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
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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Practically every food you buy in a store for consumption by humans is genetically modified food. There are no wild, seedless watermelons. There’s no wild cows.
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Buy Food Human Store Wild Yourself
We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
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In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
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Change Curiosity End People World
To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.
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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
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