Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.Carl Sagan
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Carl Sagan
The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams from generation to generation. We all bear the cost of keeping it running. Illiteracy is its linchpin.
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It Is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to 50 words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.
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There is a lurking fear that some things are 'not meant' to be known, that some inquiries are too dangerous for human being to make.
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