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The Greatest Thing That Science Teaches You Is The Law Of Unintended Consequences.

It Is A Great Tragedy That Science, This Wonderful Process For Finding Out What Is True, Has Ceded The Spiritual Uplift Of Its Central Revelations: The Vastness Of The Universe, The Immensity Of Time, The Relatedness Of All Life, And Life's Preciousness On Our Tiny Planet.

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.

Contrary To The Fantasies Of The Fundamentalists, There Was No Deathbed Conversion, No Last Minute Refuge Taken In A Comforting Vision Of A Heaven Or An Afterlife. For Carl, What Mattered Most Was What Was True, Not Merely What Would Make Us Feel Better. Even At This Moment When Anyone Would Be Forgiven For Turning Away From The Reality Of Our Situation, Carl Was Unflinching. As We Looked Deeply Into Each Other's Eyes, It Was With A Shared Conviction That Our Wondrous Life Together Was Ending Forever.