Why can't we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse?

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I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.

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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.

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In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world.

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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 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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To learn more about science, turn off your electronic device and go outside and look around a bit. Nature is calling you. Go on. The internet will still be here.

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The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.

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It's better to understand something than to memorize something.

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You don't want to raise a kid in a culture where the kid who asks the most questions is annoying. You want a culture where the kid who asks the most questions gets awards and gets another piece of cake.

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