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I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.

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God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance.
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.
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.
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.
Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what's really there.
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.
One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.
The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
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.
The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. 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.