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Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain… - Carl Sagan
" "Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and 'animals' is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them — without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret. It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer. The behavior of other animals renders such pretensions specious. They are just too much like us.
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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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«يعيش القرن الثالث عشر جنبًا إلى جنب مع القرن العشرين ليس فقط في بيوت الفلاحين وإنما — أيضًا — في ناطحات السحاب الكائنة في المدن. فمائة مليون شخص يستخدمون الكهرباء وما زالوا يعتقدون في القوى السحرية للإشارات والتعاويذ ... وكما يذهب نجوم السينما إلى الوسطاء الروحانيين، كذلك فإن الطيارين الذين يقودون آلات معجزة أوجدتها عبقرية الإنسان يضعون التمائم في ستراتهم، فيا لَهَوْل ما لديهم من مخزون لا ينفذ من الظلام والجهل والهمجية!»
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