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One of the biggest problems with the world today is that we have large groups of people who will accept whatever they hear on the grapevine, just because it suits their worldview—not because it is actually true or because they have evidence to support it. The really striking thing is that it would not take much effort to establish validity in most of these cases… but people prefer reassurance to research.
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The worst thing that ever happened to America was the 19th Amendment.
Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what's really there.
God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance.
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.
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.
The most successful people recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.
No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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