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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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Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can’t have a functioning democracy, if the electorate is under-informed or, worse, mis-informed.
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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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To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.
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Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
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As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.
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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
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In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
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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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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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Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.
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When a coincidence seems amazing, that’s because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.
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Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
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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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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the assumption that nobody is smart enough to figure out the answer to a problem.
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After 50 years of television, there’s no other conclusion the aliens could draw, but that most humans are neurotic, death-hungry, dysfunctional idiots.
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