Now, it would be wholly foolish to deny the existence of laws of nature. And if that is what we are talking about when we say God, then no one can po… - Carl Sagan
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Now, it would be wholly foolish to deny the existence of laws of nature. And if that is what we are talking about when we say God, then no one can possibly be an atheist, or at least anyone who would profess atheism would have to give a coherent argument about why the laws of nature are inapplicable. I think he or she would be hard-pressed. So with this latter definition of God, we all believe in God.
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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We sometimes hear of things that can travel faster than light. Something called 'the speed of thought' is occasionally proffered. This is an exceptionally silly notion especially since the speed of impulses through the neutrons in our brain is about the same as the speed of a donkey cart.
Тези, които търсят власт на всяка цена, забелязват обществената слабост — някакъв страх, който могат да яхнат, и така да стигнат до високите постове. Това може да са етнически различия — както е в този случай — или може би различно количество меланин в кожата; някоя различна философия или религия; а защо не употребата на наркотици, проявите на насилие, икономическата криза, молитвата в училище или поругаването (английският глагол desecrate означава буквално „правя несвещен“) на националното знаме. Какъвто и да е проблемът, бързото решение е да се премахнат част от свободите в Декларацията за правата на гражданите. Да, през 1942 г. американците от японски произход бяха защитени от Декларацията за правата, но ние все пак ги затворихме — в крайна сметка се водеше война. Да, има конституционни забрани срещу безпричинните обиски и арести, но водим война срещу наркотиците, а престъпността излиза от контрол. Да, има свобода на словото, но нали не искаме тук да се мотаят чужди автори и да проповядват чужди идеологии? Претекстът се променя всяка година, но резултатът е същият: концентриране на повече власт в по-малко ръце и потискане на различните мнения — дори и когато опитът ясно показва рисковете от подобни действия.
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Above the table on which the chattering telefax set was a mirror. In it she saw a woman neither young nor old, neither mother nor daughter. They had been right to keep the truth from her. She was not sufficiently advanced to receive that signal, much less decrypt it. She had spent her career attempting to make contact with the most remote and alien of strangers, while in her own life she had made contact with hardly anyone at all. She had been fierce in debunking the creation myths of others, and oblivious to the lie at the core of her own. She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
