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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

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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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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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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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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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If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.
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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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I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people’s politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.
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Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
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Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.
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Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
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Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
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The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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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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You don’t want to raise a kid in a culture where the kid who asks the most questions is annoying. You want a culture where the kid who asks the most questions gets awards and gets another piece of cake.
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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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Today, scientists sound the alarm on other environmental dangers. Vested interests still hire their own scientists to confuse the issue. But in the end, nature, will not be fooled.
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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
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When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
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No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
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As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.
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Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
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Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.
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When students cheat on exams, it’s because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
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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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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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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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