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.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONThe good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
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Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
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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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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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The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
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It’s better to understand something than to memorize something.
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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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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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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 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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You can’t have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That’s a recipe for disaster. And I don’t mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.
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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 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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If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it’s not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.
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