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Planetary scientist, dedicated science communicator, and tireless advocate for the humanizing power of science: Carl Sagan was born #OTD in 1934. 🧪

This passage from "The Demon Haunted World" is as prescient as ever.

Image: NASA
Carl Sagan, seated with his hands in his pockets and smiling at the camera. The image has been photoshopped so it looks like he is sitting on top of the Earth, with other planets hanging against a backdrop of nebula. "But there's another reason: Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness."
November 9, 2024 at 2:34 PM
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