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A thorough defense of skepticism and the scientific method. It repeats itself a little bit, perhaps as it's based on opinion columns, but it's worth it in the end.
The inimitable Sagan, genius science writer and communicator, laying it all out for you back in 1995:
"Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological 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, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, 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.
"Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological 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, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, 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.
En este libro vemos escribir a Carl Sagan lo mejor que tiene sobre el pensamiento crítico, el escepticismo, la importancia de la ciencia y tecnología en nuestro mundo, habla sobre cómo se falló el modelo educativo, restándole importancia al conocimiento siendo una sociedad dependiente de ella, su experiencia se centra en USA pero se aplica a muchos países, la curiosidad de conocer es inherente en nosotros, no la castiguemos y busquemos ampliarla.
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we need more advocates like Sagan. what a marvellous communicator!
Wow, can't believe I read this in high school. Some stuff was over my head but I guess this was the beginning huh.
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