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"If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."

If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then those in power work for us. In every country, we should be teaching our children the

Literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. But there are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom. But reading is still the path. - Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. - Carl Sagan

I have argued this for a long time. The political spectrum is gone, replaced by the political doughnut, where both extremes meet in a region of madness using the same lies and disinformation to ferment hate against certain groups.

Christopher Hitchens on Christianity

An organism at war with itself is doomed. - Carl Sagan

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

Every thinking person fears nuclear war, and every technological state plans for it. Everyone knows it is madness, and every nation has an excuse. - Carl Sagan, Cosmos

This planet is run by crazy people. Remember what they have to do to get where they are. Their perspective is so narrow, so...brief. A few years. In the best of them a few decades. They care only about the time they are in power. - Carl Sagan, Contact

“This combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces”

The home planet of a civilization in its technological adolescence, locked in a relentless struggle to avoid self-destruction.

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." — Voltaire

Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used. - Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Ethnocentrism, xenophobia and nationalism are these days rife in many parts of the world. Government repression of unpopular views is still widespread. False or misleading memories are inculcated. For the defenders of such attitudes, science is disturb­ing. It claims access to

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

You cannot get educated by this self-propagating system in which people study to pass exams, and teach others to pass exams, but nobody knows anything. You learn something by doing it yourself, by asking questions, by thinking, and by experimenting.

"Your knowledge is far more important than your degree".

"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."