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neither we nor our planet enjoys a privileged position in Nature. This insight has since been applied upward to the stars, and sideways to many subse… - Carl Sagan
" "neither we nor our planet enjoys a privileged position in Nature. This insight has since been applied upward to the stars, and sideways to many subsets of the human family, with great success and invariable opposition. It has been responsible for major advances in astronomy, physics, biology, anthropology, economics and politics. I wonder if its social extrapolation is a major reason for attempts at its suppression.
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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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If we lived on a planet where nothing ever changed there wouldn't be much to do. There'd be nothing to figure out. There'd be no impetus for science. And if we lived in an unpredictable world where things changed in random or complex ways we wouldn't be able to figure things out. And again, there'd be no such thing as science. But we live in an in-between universe where things change, all right but according to patterns, rules or as we call them, laws of nature. If I throw a stick up in the air it always falls down. If the sun sets in the west it always rises again the next morning in the east. And so, it's possible to figure things out. We can do science, and with it we can improve our lives.
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