Civil war Quote by Carl Sagan

“All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science. But that passion is unrequited.…

— Carl Sagan

“Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience promptly fills.…

— Carl Sagan

We are more dependent on science and engineering than at any other time in history. However, there is plenty of evidence that far too…

— Robert Winston

My sense, talking to the general public around the country, is that most people don't have a very high level of scientific literacy.

— Heidi Hammel

“Intense study of a particular field of science does not necessarily make one scientifically literate. Indeed, it has been our experience that working scientists…

— Robert M. Hazen

The problem in society is not kids not knowing science. The problem is adults not knowing science. They outnumber kids 5 to 1, they…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

It is precisely because it is fashionable for Americans to know no science, even though they may be well educated otherwise, that they so…

— Isaac Asimov

We have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“It takes a heavy commitment to quality education for all to avoid that stratification of society, those needless degrees of separation. But even the…

— William H. Calvin

You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That's a recipe for disaster. And I don't…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a…

— James D. Watson

Enormous numbers of people are taken in, or at least beguiled and fascinated, by what seems to me to be unbelievable hocum, and relatively…

— Douglas Hofstadter