Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONIgnorance 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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When students cheat on exams, it’s because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
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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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Perhaps we’ve never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon earth and decided there’s no sign of intelligent life.
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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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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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The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
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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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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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Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can’t have a functioning democracy, if the electorate is under-informed or, worse, mis-informed.
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The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.
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If you’re really successful at bullshitting, it means you’re not hanging around enough people smarter than you.
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Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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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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The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
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