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I Believe That We Are A Story-driven Species And That We Understand How Things Are Put Together, In The Context Of Narrative. It's A Shame That Science Hasn't Been Taught That Way, In A Long Time. It's Usually The Fact Completely Devoid Of Any Human Experience Or Any Idea Of How The Scientist Came To That Conclusion.

I've Been Thinking About The Distorted View Of Science That Prevails In Our Culture. I've Been Wondering About This, Because Our Civilization Is Completely Dependent On Science And High Technology, Yet Most Of Us Are Alienated From Science.

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.

The Only Gratification That Science Denies To Us Is Deception.

And What Greater Might Do We Possess As Human Beings Than Our Capacity To Question And To Learn?