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"In the 1920s, there was a dinner at which the physicist <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/464827.Robert_W__Wood" rel="nofollow noopener… - Carl Sagan
"In the 1920s, there was a dinner at which the physicist <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/464827.Robert_W__Wood" rel="nofollow noopener" title="Robert W. Wood">Robert W. Wood</a> was asked to respond to a toast ... 'To physics and metaphysics.' Now by metaphysics was meant something like philosophy — truths that you could get to just by thinking about them. <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/464827.Wood" rel="nofollow noopener" title="Wood">Wood</a> took a second, glanced about him, and answered along these lines: The physicist has an idea, he said. The more he thinks it through, the more sense it makes to him. He goes to the scientific literature, and the more he reads, the more promising the idea seems. Thus prepared, he devises an experiment to test the idea. The experiment is painstaking. Many possibilities are eliminated or taken into account; the accuracy of the measurement is refined. At the end of all this work, the experiment is completed and ... the idea is shown to be worthless. The physicist then discards the idea, frees his mind (as I was saying a moment ago) from the clutter of error, and moves on to something else. The difference between physics and metaphysics, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/464827.Wood" rel="nofollow noopener" title="Wood">Wood</a> concluded, is that the metaphysicist has no laboratory."
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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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Thus we do not yet have experience with the
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We saw a pale echo of what is now possible in 1990-1991, when Saddam Hussein, the autocrat of Iraq, made a sudden transition in the American consciousness from an obscure near-ally - granted commodities, high technology, weaponry, and even satellite intelligence data - to a slavering monster menacing the world. I am not myself an admirer of Mr. Hussein, but it was striking how quickly he could be brought from someone almost no American had heard of into the incarnation of evil. These days the apparatus for generating indignation is busy elsewhere. How confident are we that the power to drive and determine public opinion will always reside in responsible hands?
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