Nasceva oggi nel 1934 il grande scienziato e divulgatore Carl Sagan, che convinse la NASA a fare voltare la Voyager 1 per fotografare il "pallido puntino blu", la Terra vista da sei miliardi di chilometri di distanza. Il testo che scrisse per la foto richiama ad una coscienza planetaria che purtroppo ancora non abbiamo. Ma la raggiungeremo.
Grazie Carl, le stelle che ti hanno sempre chiamato, da tempo le hai raggiunte.
Well, of course I want to ponder how many galactic civilizations there might be! Run the Drake Equation on your NeoTrinkey!
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I would like #Carl_Sagan to read "The Demon-Haunted World" to me...
“If we teach only the findings and products of #science … without communicating its critical method, how can the average person possibly distinguish science from #pseudoscience? Both then are presented as unsupported assertion.”
“Science is far from a perfect instrument of #knowledge. It’s just the best we have. In this respect, it’s like #democracy. Science by itself cannot advocate courses of human #action, but it can certainly illuminate the possible #consequences of #alternative courses of action.”
“Every time we exercise self-criticism, every time we test our ideas against the outside world, we are doing science. When we are self-indulgent and uncritical, when we confuse hopes and facts, we slide into pseudoscience and superstition.”
From #Carl_Sagan’s Baloney Detection Kit - Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking
https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/01/03/baloney-detection-kit-carl-sagan/
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Regardez ce point. C'est ici. C'est notre foyer. C'est nous. Dessus se trouvent tous ceux que vous aimez, tous ceux que vous connaissez, tous ceux dont vous avez jamais entendu parler, tous les êtres humains qui aient jamais vécu. La somme de nos joies et de nos souffrances. Des milliers de religions, d’idéologies et de doctrines économiques remplies de certitudes.
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