"If your ego starts out, 'I am important, I am big, I am special,' you're in for some disappointments when you look around at what we've discovered abo...
Science literacy is an important part of what it is to be an informed citizen of society.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson ~
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Science literacy is an important part of what it is to be an informed citizen of society.
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