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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.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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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Cosmos Emotion Fragile Human Ignorance Journey Lesson Universe
Aliens might be surprised to learn that in a cosmos with limitless starlight, humans kill for energy sources buried in the sand.
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Cosmos Learning Limitation Sand Surprise
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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Community Greatness People Science Truth
To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.
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Empowerment Literature Science Yourself
Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
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Flow Literature Problem Science Solution
You can’t have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That’s a recipe for disaster. And I don’t mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.
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Decision Disaster Future Literature Office People Politics Recipe Vote
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
The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
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Believe Goodness Science True Yourself
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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Ideas Life Mindset Open Yourself
We spend the first year of a child’s life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There’s something wrong there.
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Children Learning Life Talk Walk Wrong
As they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion… Although just as in hostage negotiations, it’s probably best to keep both sides talking to each other.
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Best Common Current Ground Practice
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
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
If you’re really successful at bullshitting, it means you’re not hanging around enough people smarter than you.
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Enough People Smart Success Yourself
No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
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Curious Dumb Live People Yourself
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

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