Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONIf 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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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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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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The day that you stop looking – because you’re content God did it – I don’t need you in the lab. You’re useless on the frontier of understanding the nature of the world.
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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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I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that 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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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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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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Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.
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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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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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In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
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My goal is not to shove information into your head. It’s to find ways to reignite the curiosity that we all had as children for the natural world. You don’t have to tell a child to explore the backyard.
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