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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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.

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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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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.

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Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.

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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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We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.

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To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.

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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

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