Happy Carl Sagan Day, friends! Its hard to pick a favorite passage - TopicsExpress



          

Happy Carl Sagan Day, friends! Its hard to pick a favorite passage from Carls oeuvre, but heres one that stands out today: Weve arranged a global civilization in which the most crucial elements — transportation, communications, and all other industries; agriculture, medicine, education, entertainment, protecting the environment; and even the key democratic institution of voting, profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. The Demon-Haunted World, p. 26 And, heres a swell video from the Symphony of Science, incorporating some of Sagans dialogue from Cosmos. https://youtube/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc
Posted on: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 18:37:39 +0000

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