For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONI love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
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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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Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
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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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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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The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
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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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Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
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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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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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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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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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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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In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
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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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