A Warning From Carl Sagan on Scientific Ignorance

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Frighteningly accurate.

I’m skeptical about whether those words are his.

The Venus Project

Carl Sagan: “Its a thing Jefferson lay great stress on: wasn’t enough, he
said to enshrin some rights and in the constitution or Bill of Rights. The
people had to be educated and they had to practice their skepticism in
their education otherwise we don’t run the government, the government runs
us.”

Insightful! Unfortunately science and money go hand in hand only when
science can be lucrative. A brighter scientific future for the human race
does not interest capitalism

What a great man.

Carl Sagan is amazingly insightful years before most of us saw it coming.

It as been a while, but he was – and still is – right in my opinion; as the
risks have only increased!

I’ve been saying the same things in discussions lately, arguing against the
“You can’t ask me about Technology, I am just not good at that” attitudes.

A great mind with a great #warning about #science and #technology

Carl Sagan was, and still is, The Shit.

Interesting.
Is the public scientific knowledge reaching a level where we, the public,
loose control?

#Nerri

A fine mind and a true humanitarian.

Carl Sagan’s words are very much true today.

You do not need to know everything science has to teach us. But you do need
to know how to understand what science tells us. Something missing entirely
too much not only in USA, UK, or first world countries, but the whole of
the world is far too illiterate when it comes to science. Especially when
science has such an impact on every person on the planet.
This is great. First time I’ve seen this clip.

He’s right.

Who could have guessed how utterly prophetic Carl Sagan could have been?

+Deckard Cain +YogaFire +Yvigny Goncharov abiogenesis and evolution are
theories trying to explain how we came by. Abiogenesis explains nonlife to
life, evolution explains non intelligent to intelligent.

All trying to prove origin of life. Abiogenesis has never been repeated.
Evolution , because of time needed to observe, has also never been
observed. And cannot be repeated, even with organisms with very short
lifespan, like fruitfly.

So I become a skeptic of the status quo and an automatic idiot.

This is so true. Listen and fully understand it.

totally agree… so many warnings and ppl tend to ignore them… science
became the new god. a nice quote:
Life would again have to make superhuman efforts, “as in a battle”, to
break open for himself a path through the truths created by the sciences
which dream of being but cannot see it in waking reality
― Lev Shestov

In his last interview, CARL SAGAN predicted the DANGEROUS MIX between
POWERFUL TECHNOLOGY and people’s deep IGNORANCE ABOUT SCIENCE and their
incapability to elect representatives capable of making wise decisions
about what direction science and technology should advance.

Carl Sagan and Government_ Charlie Rose.wmv

Prescient words from wisdom passed too soon. I think the technologies we
are seeing today would delight and terrify Sagan.

h/t +Casey McKinnon

be skeptic about anything about abiogenesis or evolution and bam…. you
are an idiot. why? because you don’t believe nonlife can be life. even
though it cannot be repeated.

Here’s my home boy.

Carl Sagan on a more scientific government, and society.

Everything we do is linked by technology with science being the backbone.
Unfortunately few in congress care to support or know much about it.
Cuts to NASA and the National Science Foundation are part of the problem
Carl Sagan warned about nearly twenty years ago. Great interview by CBS’s
Charlie Rose. #twt

Ayn Rand is exactly the kind of charlatan he was talking about.
Even she would have swallowed a bottle of speed if she had ever
seen the movies Atlas Shrugged 1 & 2 based on her book.
Objectivist & Libertarian porn. Sat through 20 minutes of 2.
Thank goshness I didn’t have to pay for it.

Extremely interesting and some of the same things have been concerning me
for a while :/ .. I feel like we are approaching a tipping point on this
issue 🙁
via upworthy
http://www.upworthy.com/a-science-icon-died-17-years-ago-in-his-last-interview-he-made-a-warning-that-gives-me-goosebumps-5?c=ufb1

We’ve arranged a society based on science & technology in which nobody
understands anything about science and technology. Power+Ignorance

Carl Sagan and Government_ Charlie Rose.wmv

Absolutely!

There seems to be a renewed war on science from many fronts.
Politicians don’t want people to develop a good skeptical BS detector..

Carl Sagan, my hero! =)

His last interview. Sage advice as true now as then

Carl Sagan inspired a generation of scientists with his work in and out of
the classroom. But he didn’t always present science with cheer. In this
clip, he passionately defends science with a grave warning. It’s something
we all need to hear.

From:
http://www.upworthy.com/a-science-icon-died-17-years-ago-in-his-last-interview-he-made-a-warning-that-gives-me-goosebumps-5?c=reccon1

And right there is the strongest argument for good education that there is.

Without education, the government runs us.

Carl Sagan and Government_ Charlie Rose.wmv

well…. I guess we’re fucked now

A Science Icon Died 17 Years Ago. In His Last Interview, He Made A Warning
That Gives Me Goosebumps. Carl Sagan and Government_ Charlie Rose.wmv