Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences. He is best known for his work as a science popularizer and communicator.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
Our species needs and deserves a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.