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Carl Sagan Always Used To Say That When He Was Trying To Explain Something To Someone, He Would Go Back To That Time When He Didn't Understand It, And Then He Would Retrace His Thought Steps So That He Could Make It Absolutely Clear, And That's One Of The Infinite Number Of Things I Learned From Him.

We Are Living In A Society That Is Totally Dependent On Science And High Technology, And Yet Most Of Us Are Effectively Alienated And Excluded From Its Workings, From The Values Of Science, The Methods Of Science, And The Language Of Science. A Good Place To Start Would Be For As Many Of Us As Possible To Begin To Understand The Decision-making And The Basis For Those Decisions, And To Act Independently And Not Be Manipulated Into Thinking One Thing Or Another, But To Learn How To Think. That's What Science Does.

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.

In The 1970s, I Think That There Was Probably A Higher Degree Of Respect For Science, Of Hope About The Future, And The Future-oriented Vision.

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