Deep Space

[Intro: Carl Sagan] There's two kind of dangers, one is what I just talked about That we've arrenged a society based on science and technology In which nobody understands anything about science and technology And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces I mean, who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it? And the second reason that I'm worried about this is that science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility [Instrumental] [Spoken Word: Carl Sagan] If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true Then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along The people had to be educated, and they had to practice their skepticism and their education Otherwise we don’t run the government, the government runs us [Instrumental]