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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.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
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Be Yourself Greatness Inspirational Motivational People Society Version
If you’re really successful at bullshitting, it means you’re not hanging around enough people smarter than you.
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Enough People Smart Success Yourself
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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Build Discover Philosophy Problem Program Science Smart
When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
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Believe Blind Decline Investigation Natural Science See World Worst
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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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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Cool Death Each Other Ghost Haunt
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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Democracy Information Upset Yourself
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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Life Ocean Universe Water
Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
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Close Pretend Reality
When we try to look farther into the universe we come to what appears to be the end of space but actually it’s the beginning of time.
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Appearance Beginning Time Try Universe
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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Affect Belief Decision People Reality System Yourself
In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
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Change Curiosity End People World
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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Cosmos Emotion Fragile Human Ignorance Journey Lesson Universe
The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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Evolution Gravity Science Theory
There is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.
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Ignorance Problem Shame Thinking Unknown
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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Community Greatness People Science Truth

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