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In both countries, what passes for public debate is still, on closer examination, mainly repetition of national slogans, appeal to popular prejudice,… - Carl Sagan
" "In both countries, what passes for public debate is still, on closer examination, mainly repetition of national slogans, appeal to popular prejudice, innuendo, self-justification, misdirection, incantation of homilies when evidence is asked for, and a thorough contempt for the intelligence of the citizenry.
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About Carl Sagan
Carl Edward Sagan (9 November 1934 – 20 December 1996) was an American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and science communicator. His best known scientific contribution is research on extraterrestrial life, including experimental demonstration of the production of amino acids from basic chemicals by radiation. Sagan assembled the first physical messages sent into space, the Pioneer plaque and the Voyager Golden Record, universal messages that could potentially be understood by any extraterrestrial intelligence that might find them. Sagan argued the hypothesis, accepted since, that the high surface temperatures of Venus can be attributed to, and calculated using, the greenhouse effect. He testified to the US Congress in 1985 that the greenhouse effect will change the earth's climate system.
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«في كل مرة يقدم أحد التقارير العلمية قدرًا من المعلومات فإنه يكون مصحوبًا بهامش للخطأ — وهو تذكرة هادئة، ولكن دءوبة ومثابرة بأنه لا توجد أي معرفة بالغة الكمال أو منزهة عن الخطأ فهو قياس يُحدد مدى تصديقنا لما نعتقد أننا نعرفه، فإذا كانت هوامش الخطأ صغيرة، ترتفع دقة معرفتنا التجريبية، وإذا كانت هوامش الخطأ كبيرة، يرتفع، عندئذ، عدم اليقين بصدق معرفتنا، وفي غير الرياضيات البحتة لا يوجد شيء معروف على وجه اليقين.
Pero no sirve de nada tener esos derechos si no se usan: el derecho de libre expresión cuando nadie contradice al gobierno, la libertad de prensa cuando nadie está dispuesto a formular las preguntas importantes, el derecho de reunión cuando no hay protesta, el sufragio universal cuando vota menos de la mitad del electorado, la separación de la Iglesia y el Estado cuando no se repara regularmente el muro que los separa. Por falta de uso, pueden llegar a convertirse en poco más que objetos votivos, pura palabrería patriótica. Los derechos y las libertades o se usan o se pierden.
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Education on the value of free speech and the other freedoms reserved by the Bill of Rights, about what happens when you don't have them, and about how to exercise and protect them, should be an essential prerequisite for being an American citizen — or indeed a citizen of any nation, the more so to the degree that such rights remain unprotected.
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