We Smoked The Way Other American Families

I Remember That One Time Carl Sagan Was Giving A Talk, And He Spelled Out, In A Kind Of Withering Succession, These Great Theories Of Demotion That Science Has Dealt Us, All Of The Ways In Which Science Is Telling Us We Are Not Who We Would Like To Believe We Are. At The End Of It, A Young Man Came Up To Him And He Said: "what Do You Give Us In Return? Now That You've Taken Everything From Us? What Meaning Is Left, If Everything That I've Been Taught Since I Was A Child Turns Out To Be Untrue?" Carl Looked At Him And Said, Do Something Meaningful.

I Found That It Was Easiest To Convey The Information In The Context Of The Life Of The Scientist Or In The Context Of Our Own Personal Experience, And There Was No Idea That Was Too Complicated That Couldn't Be Explained Clearly And Directly.

All Of Science To Me, Everything That We Have Learned, Is Important To The Extent That It Brings Us To Our Senses.

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

Well, I Actually Grew Up In The Sixties. I Feel Very Lucky, Actually, That That Was My Slice Of Time That I Was Dealt. Let's Remember That The Real Motivation In The Sixties, And Even In The Fifties, Was The Cold War.