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Science Has The Cold Facts, But Lacks Religion's Social Organization And Ability To Inspire That Moves People To Act.

A Lot Of People Have This Ego Need That Makes Them Want To Believe That Earth Is The Center Of The Universe And Humans Are The Most Important Species, The Supreme Expression Of Creation.

No Single Step In The Persuit Of Enlightenment Should Ever Be Considered Sacred; Only The Search Was.

Interviewer: "didn't [sagan] Want To Believe?" Druyan: "he Didn't Want To Believe. He Wanted To Know.

We Are Living In A Society That Is Totally Dependent On Science And High Technology, And Yet Most Of Us Are Effectively Alienated And Excluded From Its Workings, From The Values Of Science, The Methods Of Science, And The Language Of Science. A Good Place To Start Would Be For As Many Of Us As Possible To Begin To Understand The Decision-making And The Basis For Those Decisions, And To Act Independently And Not Be Manipulated Into Thinking One Thing Or Another, But To Learn How To Think. That's What Science Does.