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The USI or the Library - you choose!!

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  • #62
    dowlingm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,337 ✭✭✭dowlingm


    Byron85 wrote: »
    If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs.
    You should credit Dr. Carl Sagan the next time you paraphrase him...

    http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/05/a-day-to-remember-carl-sagan
    Dr Carl Sagan wrote:
    “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. 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.”


  • #63
    Byron85
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,443 ✭✭✭Byron85


    dowlingm wrote: »
    You should credit Dr. Carl Sagan the next time you paraphrase him...

    http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/05/a-day-to-remember-carl-sagan

    I love that interview. Pity it was his second last or thereabouts before he died.


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