but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.
The plain lesson is that the study & learning, not just science, are avoidable, even undesirable.
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“The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bite (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience & superstition,
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
- Carl Sagan
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All our science,
Measured against reality
Is primitive
And childlike.
And yet
It is the most precious thing we have.
- Albert Einstein
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