No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONThe good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
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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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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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The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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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 molecules that comprise our body are traceable to the crucibles of the centers of stars.These atoms and molecules are in us because, in fact, the universe is in us. And, we are not only figuratively, but literally, stardust.
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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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We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
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Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
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The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
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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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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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As they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion… Although just as in hostage negotiations, it’s probably best to keep both sides talking to each other.
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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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Claiming there is no other life in the universe is like scooping up some water, looking at the cup and claiming there are no whales in the ocean.
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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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