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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.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.
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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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We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
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The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
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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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If each dead person became a ghost, there’d be more than 100 billion of them haunting us all. Creepy, but cool.
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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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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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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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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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Believe Fact True Yourself
It’s better to understand something than to memorize something.
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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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Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.
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Aliens might be surprised to learn that in a cosmos with limitless starlight, humans kill for energy sources buried in the sand.
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For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.
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Drive Philosophy Suffering Surprise World Yourself

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