The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONIf 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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When students cheat on exams, it’s because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
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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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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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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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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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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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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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If you’re really successful at bullshitting, it means you’re not hanging around enough people smarter than you.
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I object to religion in science classrooms not because it’s religion but because it’s not science.
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Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.
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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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When a coincidence seems amazing, that’s because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.
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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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There’s a saying in the scientific community, that every great truth goes through three phases. First, people deny it. Second, they say that it conflicts with the Bible. Third, they say that they’ve known it all along.
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