„And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don’t know anything about it?“

— Carl Sagan

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„We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.“
— Carl Sagan
„My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science.“
— Мустафа Кемаль Ататюрк
„If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will be through intelligent application of science.“
— Robert A. Heinlein
„Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.“
— H.L. Mencken
„What people with disabilities want is to relate. This is something unique. It makes people who are closed up in the head become human. The wonderful thing about people with disabilities is that when someone important comes, they don’t care. They care about the relationship. So they have a healing power, a healing power of love.“
— Jean Vanier
„Think [Schindler's List] was about the Holocaust?… That was about success, wasn’t it? The Holocaust is about six million people who get killed. ‘'Schindler’s List’' is about 600 who don’t. Anything else?“
— Stanley Kubrick