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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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We should not be ashamed of not having answers to all questions yet... I'm perfectly happy staring somebody in the face saying, 'I don't know yet, and we've got top people working on it.' The moment you feel compelled to provide an answer, then you're doing the same thing that the religious community does: providing answers to every possible question.
In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world.
The most successful people recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.
I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance.
I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
Does it mean, if you don't understand something, and the community of physicists don't understand it, that means God did it? Is that how you want to play this game? Because if it is, here's a list of things in the past that the physicists at the time didn't understand [and now we do understand] [...]. If that's how you want to invoke your evidence for God, then God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on - so just be ready for that to happen, if that's how you want to come at the problem
No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
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.
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.