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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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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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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The worst thing that ever happened to America was the 19th Amendment.

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To assert that the universe has a purpose implies the universe has intent. And intent implies a desired outcome. But who would do the desiring? And what would a desired outcome be? That carbon-based life is inevitable? Or that sentient primates are life's neurological pinnacle? Are answers to these questions even possible without expressing a profound bias of human sentiment? Of course humans were not around to ask these questions for 99.9999% of cosmic history. So if the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it.

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God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance.

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

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

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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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No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

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