The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONIf 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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We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
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Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.
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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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Claiming there is no other life in the universe is like scooping up some water, looking at the cup and claiming there are no whales in the ocean.
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Somehow it’s O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, ‘I never learned to read,’ they’d say I was an illiterate dolt.
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Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
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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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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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You don’t want to raise a kid in a culture where the kid who asks the most questions is annoying. You want a culture where the kid who asks the most questions gets awards and gets another piece of cake.
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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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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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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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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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Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.
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The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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