As A Species, We Tend To Lie

The Aspirations Of Democracy Are Based On The Notion Of An Informed Citizenry, Capable Of Making Wise Decisions. The Choices We Are Asked To Make Become Increasingly Complex. They Require The Longer-term Thinking And Greater Tolerance For Ambiguity That Science Fosters. The New Economy Is Predicated On A Continuous Pipeline Of Scientific And Technological Innovation. It Can Not Exist Without Workers And Consumers Who Are Mathematically And Scientifically Literate.

It Takes A Fearless, Unflinching Love And Deep Humility To Accept The Universe As It Is. The Most Effective Way He Knew To Accomplish That, The Most Powerful Tool At His Disposal, Was The Scientific Method, Which Over Time Winnows Out Deception. It Can't Give You Absolute Truth Because Science Is A Permanent Revolution, Always Subject To Revision, But It Can Give You Successive Approximations Of Reality.

Carl Sagan Always Used To Say That When He Was Trying To Explain Something To Someone, He Would Go Back To That Time When He Didn't Understand It, And Then He Would Retrace His Thought Steps So That He Could Make It Absolutely Clear, And That's One Of The Infinite Number Of Things I Learned From Him.

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

If You Have A Beating Heart, That's Good Enough.