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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

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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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Perhaps we’ve never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon earth and decided there’s no sign of intelligent life.
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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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It’s better to understand something than to memorize something.
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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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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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I don’t want people to say, ‘Something is true because Tyson says it is true.’ That’s not critical thinking.
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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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There is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.
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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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Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.
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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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When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
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