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.
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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God displayed a sense of humor when he configured the region between our legs an entertainment complex built around a sewage system.
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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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Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
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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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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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I wonder if, in fact, we have been observed by aliens and upon close examination of human conduct and human behavior they have concluded that there is no sign of intelligent life on Earth.
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Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
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Part of knowing how to think is knowing how the laws of nature shape the world around us. Without that knowledge, without that capacity to think, you can easily become a victim of people who seek to take advantage of you.
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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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Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
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When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
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The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that’s getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.
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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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When students cheat on exams, it’s because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
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