2024-11-10 00:48 UTC
Remembering Carl Sagan (Nov 9, 1934 – Dec 20, 1996).
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” -
https://science.nasa.gov/people/carl-sagan/
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@AkaSci@fosstodon.org 2024-11-10 00:57
Carl Sagan - “I have a foreboding of an America when awesome tech powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness..." https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/252618-the-demon-haunted-world 2/n