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When you're in love, you want to tell the world.

Not explaining science seems to me perverse.

"Why We Need To Understand Science" in The Skeptical Inquirer Vol.

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

99 this is similar to statements either mentioned in earlier interviews or published later in the book The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995)

Bringing Science Down to Earth (1994), co-authored with Anne Kalosh, in Hemispheres (October 1994), p.

That's a clear prescription for disaster.

We live in a society absolutely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology.

Keynote address at CSICOP conference (1987), as quoted in Do Science and the Bible Conflict? (2003) by Judson Poling, p.

I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful.

In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument my position is mistaken," and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again.

"The Burden of Skepticism" in Skeptical Inquirer Vol.

On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish the useful ideas from the worthless ones. If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you.

It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas.

Remarks on the nuclear arms race, on ABC News Viewpoint - "The Day After" (20 November 1983).

The amount of weapons that are available to the United States and the Soviet Union are so bloated, so grossly in excess of what's needed to dissuade the other that if it weren't so tragic, it would be laughable. Well, that's the kind of situation we are actually in.

Each of them is concerned about who's ahead, who's stronger. And there are two implacable enemies in that room. But by far the most promising method is to send pictures. A signal of this kind, based on a simple mathematical concept, could only have a biological origin. . . ) comprising the numbers 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, for example, consists exclusively of the first 12 prime numbers-that is, numbers that can be divided only by 1, or by themselves. A modulated signal (‘beep,’ ‘beep-beep,’. It is easy to create an interstellar radio message which can be recognized as emanating unambiguously from intelligent beings.Planetary Exploration (University of Oregon Books, Eugene, Oregon, 1970), page 15.The universe is vast and awesome, and for the first time we are becoming a part of it. There are, perhaps, places which are outside our universe. There are turbulent plasmas writhing with X- and gamma-rays and mighty stellar explosions. There are stars leaving the Milky Way, and immense gas clouds falling into it. There are tiny grains between the stars, with the size and atomic composition of bacteria.

There are atomic nuclei a few miles across which rotate thirty times a second. I know of a sun the size of the Earth - and made of diamond. There is a place with four suns in the sky - red, white, blue, and yellow two of them are so close together that they touch, and star-stuff flows between them.If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we’re up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along. a way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. 1.10 The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006).1.9 Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millenium (1997).1.8 The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995).1.7 Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994).1.6 Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990 Update).