Carl Sagan: "The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately...
"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.” ― Carl Sagan, 1995
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth.” - Sagan
1995 Carl Sagan: "The plain lesson is that study and learning - not just of science, but of anything - are avoidable, even undesirable."
1995 prediction about the kind of world in 2023 and things like pandemic anti-science response and climate change denial... and short meme-like media messages