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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.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would be inexcusably egocentric of us to suggest that we’re alone in the universe.
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Earth Old Thinking Universe
In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
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Change Curiosity End People World
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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Courage Generation Ourselves
When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
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Believe Blind Decline Investigation Natural Science See World Worst
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.
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Drive Philosophy Suffering Surprise World Yourself
I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.
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Best Children Myself Raise Simplicity Thinking Way
Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
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Close Pretend Reality
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
What I’m saying is, when different experiments give you the same result, it is no longer subject to your opinion. That’s the good thing about science: It’s true whether or not you believe in it. That’s why it works.
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Believe Different Experiment Result True Work Yourself
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
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
Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
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Amazing Day Mindset Surprise
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
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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End Environment Issues Nature Science
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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Cure Humanity Ignorance Reason Start Virus
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

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