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Carl Sagan

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Carl Sagan was a humanist who strived to teach science as a way of thinking and interpreting the world. His 1995 book The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark was a kind of message he left to humanity before he died of cancer.

See also: Carl Sagan's January 1994 notice to the USA Public as a warning.

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"This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.” ― Carl Sagan, 1995 (lemm.ee)
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"This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, year 1995

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

"This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while" ... 1995, for a while, say 2025?

Long enough that he didn't live to see it happen, unfortunately. Or, for his sake, perhaps mercifully.