{"id":7886,"date":"2025-07-17T16:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T16:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/?p=7886"},"modified":"2025-07-17T16:04:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T16:04:12","slug":"carl-sagan-quote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2025\/07\/17\/carl-sagan-quote\/","title":{"rendered":"Carl Sagan quote"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements &#8211; transportation, communications, and all other industries; agriculture, medicine, education, entertainment, protecting the environment; and even the key democratic institution of voting &#8211; profoundly depend on science and technology. 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.&#8221;<br><br>Carl Sagan ; The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements &#8211; transportation, communications, and all other industries; agriculture, medicine, education, entertainment, protecting the environment; and even the key democratic institution of voting &#8211; profoundly depend on science and technology. We &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2025\/07\/17\/carl-sagan-quote\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7887,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7886\/revisions\/7887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}