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In his celebrated little book On Liberty, the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is “a peculiar evil.” If the opin… - Carl Sagan
" "In his celebrated little book On Liberty, the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is “a peculiar evil.” If the opinion is right, we are robbed of the “opportunity of exchanging error for truth”; and if it’s wrong, we are deprived of a deeper understanding of the truth in “its collision with error.” If we know only our own side of the argument, we hardly know even that; it becomes stale, soon learned only by rote, untested, a pallid and lifeless truth.
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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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Над масата, на която дрънчеше телефаксът, висеше огледало. В него тя видя една жена, нито млада, нито стара. Нито майка, нито дъщеря. Бяха прави да й спестят истината. Не беше достатъчно напреднала, за да получи сигнала, да го разчете. Бе прекарала цялата си кариера в усилие да осъществи контакт с най-отдалечените и чужди странници, докато в собствения си живот едва ли бе осъществила контакт с когото и да било. С ярост бе отхвърляла митовете на другите за сътворението, сляпа пред лъжата за нейното собствено. Беше проучвала вселената през целия си живот, а бе пропуснала най-ясното послание: за малки същества като нас огромното пространство е поносимо само чрез обичта.
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"(...) It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known". — Pale Blue Dot, 1994
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