Carl Sagan

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. ”

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. ”

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. ”

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. ”

Today, we're still loaded down - and, to some extent, embarrassed - by ancient myths, but we respect them as part of the same impulse that has led to the modern, scientific kind of myth. But we now have the opportunity to discover, for the first time, the way the universe is in fact constructed as opposed to how we would wish it to be constructed. ”