“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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Carl Sagan is an ambassador to the world of astronomy, and a genius. In my opinion.
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Mine too- one of my
top 10 all time favorites.- just wish he was still around
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“In its encounter with Nature, science invariably elicits a sense of reverence and awe. The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos. And the cumulative worldwide build-up of knowledge over time converts science into something only a little short of a trans-national, trans-generational meta-mind.”
—Carl Sagan (The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark)
Mine too (one thing for sure is that he is still around) cheers 🙂
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