We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
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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As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.
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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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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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Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.
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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
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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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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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I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
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Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.
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The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
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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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Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
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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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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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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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