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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 Tyson

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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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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When students cheat on exams, it’s because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
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To learn more about science, turn off your electronic device and go outside and look around a bit. Nature is calling you. Go on. The internet will still be here.
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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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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
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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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I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.
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If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.
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Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.
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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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Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
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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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What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind through the universe? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos. Have a nice day.
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I object to religion in science classrooms not because it’s religion but because it’s not science.
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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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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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