When It Comes to Scientific Research, Most Americans Don't Know What to Think
... Carl Sagan : "sooner or later this combustile mixture of ignorance and power" will blow up in our faces."
"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology," he famously said.
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