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When a coincidence seems amazing, that’s because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
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Change Curiosity End People World
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
Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
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Close Pretend Reality
Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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Ignorance Literature Science World Yourself
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
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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Academic Argument Better Job Need People
The day that you stop looking – because you’re content God did it – I don’t need you in the lab. You’re useless on the frontier of understanding the nature of the world.
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God Need Satisfaction Stop Understand World
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
Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine.
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Enough Imagination Nature Reality Wonderful
Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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Believe Fact True Yourself
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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God Ignorance Move Science Small Time
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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Ignorance Problem Shame Thinking Unknown
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
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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Dreams People Politics Thinking True Truth World
I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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History Human Ignorance Myself Time
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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Device Internet Learning Science

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