This Planet Seems To Be In Such

No Single Step In The Persuit Of Enlightenment Should Ever Be Considered Sacred; Only The Search Was.

I Remember That One Time Carl Sagan Was Giving A Talk, And He Spelled Out, In A Kind Of Withering Succession, These Great Theories Of Demotion That Science Has Dealt Us, All Of The Ways In Which Science Is Telling Us We Are Not Who We Would Like To Believe We Are. At The End Of It, A Young Man Came Up To Him And He Said: "what Do You Give Us In Return? Now That You've Taken Everything From Us? What Meaning Is Left, If Everything That I've Been Taught Since I Was A Child Turns Out To Be Untrue?" Carl Looked At Him And Said, Do Something Meaningful.

I Found That It Was Easiest To Convey The Information In The Context Of The Life Of The Scientist Or In The Context Of Our Own Personal Experience, And There Was No Idea That Was Too Complicated That Couldn't Be Explained Clearly And Directly.

Carl Took On The Military-industrial Complex. He Campaigned Around The World For An End To The Production Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction. To Him It Was A Perversion Of Science.

I Don't Have Any Faith, But I Have A Lot Of Hope, And I Have A Lot Of Dreams Of What We Could Do With Our Intelligence If We Had The Will And The Leadership And The Understanding Of How We Could Take All Of Our Intelligence And Our Resources And Create A World For Our Kids That Is Hopeful.