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Pastimes : Carl Sagan Memorial Thread

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To: Tom Smith who wrote ()1/5/1997 8:42:00 PM
From: Randy Giese   of 103
 
"We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements 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...

I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive"

-- The Demon-Haunted World

Carl Sagan's hope for mankind is expressed in what I believe he knew would be his final book.
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