https://t.inks.page/wiki/Carl_Sagan Follow any website on Inks inks.page https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan?t=2026-04-05 We've arranged a global civilization in which the most crucial elements — transportation, communications, and all other industries; agriculture, medicine, education, entertainment, protecting the environment; and even the key democratic institution of voting — profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. 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.

• Ch. 2 : Science and Hope, p. 26

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