Quote of the Day (Carl Sagan, on Why Science Is Controversial)
“The rate of change in science is responsible for
some of the fire it draws. Just as we've finally understood something the
scientists are talking about, they tell us it isn't true. And even if it is, there's
a slew of new things—things we never heard of, things difficult to believe,
things with disquieting implications—that they claim to have discovered
recently. Scientists can be perceived as toying with us, as wanting to overturn
everything, as socially dangerous.” —Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1996)
“The rate of change in science is responsible for
some of the fire it draws. Just as we've finally understood something the
scientists are talking about, they tell us it isn't true. And even if it is, there's
a slew of new things—things we never heard of, things difficult to believe,
things with disquieting implications—that they claim to have discovered
recently. Scientists can be perceived as toying with us, as wanting to overturn
everything, as socially dangerous.” —Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1996)
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