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" "Imagine, a room, awash in gasoline. And there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has 9,000 matches. The other has 7,000 matches. Each of them is concerned about who's ahead, who's stronger. Well, that's the kind of situation we are actually in. The amount of weapons that are available to the United States and the Soviet Union are so bloated, so grossly in excess of what's needed to dissuade the other that if it weren't so tragic, it would be laughable.'''
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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Не смятам, че науката се преподава трудно, защото хората не са готови за нея, защото се е появила случайно или защото хората като общо не са достатъчно интелигентни, за да се справят с нея. Напротив — огромната жажда за наука, която виждам в първокласниците, и полученият от оцелелите ловци и събиратели урок са достатъчно красноречиви. Дълбоко в нас — независимо от времето, мястото и културата — е заложена склонност към науката. Тя е средството, благодарение на което сме оцелели. Тя е наше рождено право. Когато със своето безразличие, невнимание, некомпетентност и страх от скептицизма откъсваме децата от науката, ние всъщност ги лишаваме от техните права. Отнемаме им сечивата, от които ще се нуждаят, за да изградят своето бъдеще.
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