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I find many adults are put off when young children pose scientific questions. Why is the Moon round? the children ask. Why is grass green? What is a … - Carl Sagan
" "I find many adults are put off when young children pose scientific questions. Why is the Moon round? the children ask. Why is grass green? What is a dream? How deep can you dig a hole? When is the world’s birthday? Why do we have toes? Too many teachers and parents answer with irritation or ridicule, or quickly move on to something else: ‘What did you expect the Moon to be, square?’ Children soon recognize that somehow this kind of question annoys the grown-ups. A few more experiences like it, and another child has been lost to science. Why adults should pretend to omniscience before 6-year-olds, I can’t for the life of me understand. What’s wrong with admitting that we don’t know something? Is our self-esteem so fragile?
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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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Всяка среща с Халеевата комета е била повод за изразяване на надежди и страхове. Същото се отнася и до появата на ярки непериодични комети. Почти ритуално това е било време да се помолим. Ето защо за следващата поява на Халеевата комета и на кометата Хейл-Боп ние предлагаме една своя молитва: Живеем на крехка планета, от чийто грижливо опазване зависи дали ще има бъдеще за нашите деца. Ние сме само временните попечители на един свят, който сам по себе си не е нищо повече от една прашинка в невъобразимо необятна и стара Вселена. Затова нека се научим да постъпваме преди всичко в интерес на вида и планетата ни.
Тогава още неизброимо много нощи ще има хора, които да бъдат свидетели на величието на кометите, благословили земното небе.
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An extraterrestrial being, newly arrived on Earth — scrutinizing what we mainly present to our children in television, radio, movies, newspapers, magazines, the comics, and many books — might easily conclude that we are intent on teaching them murder, rape, cruelty, superstition, credulity, and consumerism. We keep at it, and through constant repetition many of them finally get it. What kind of society could we create if, instead, we drummed into them science and a sense of hope?
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