I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.
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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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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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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We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
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Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
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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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No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
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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 students cheat on exams, it’s because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
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Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.
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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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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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Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
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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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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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When we try to look farther into the universe we come to what appears to be the end of space but actually it’s the beginning of time.
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