If You Have A Beating Heart, That's

We Are Living In A Society That Is Totally Dependent On Science And High Technology, And Yet Most Of Us Are Effectively Alienated And Excluded From Its Workings, From The Values Of Science, The Methods Of Science, And The Language Of Science. A Good Place To Start Would Be For As Many Of Us As Possible To Begin To Understand The Decision-making And The Basis For Those Decisions, And To Act Independently And Not Be Manipulated Into Thinking One Thing Or Another, But To Learn How To Think. That's What Science Does.

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.

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

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.

I've Been Thinking About The Distorted View Of Science That Prevails In Our Culture. I've Been Wondering About This, Because Our Civilization Is Completely Dependent On Science And High Technology, Yet Most Of Us Are Alienated From Science.