There is a lurking fear that some things are not โmeant" to be known, that some inquiries are too dangerous for human beings to make.
Carl SaganOur species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
Carl SaganI can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.
Carl SaganScience arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience promptly fills. If it were widely understood that claims to knowledge require adequate evidence before they can be accepted, there would be no room for pseudoscience.
Carl Sagan