Clearly the best time to be alive is when you start out wondering and end up knowing. There is only one generation in the whole history of mankind in that position. Us.”
— Carl Sagan, June 1974
Those Who Know, Chuckle.
Clearly the best time to be alive is when you start out wondering and end up knowing. There is only one generation in the whole history of mankind in that position. Us.”
— Carl Sagan, June 1974
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I don’t understand what he meant. What about the ancient Greeks, the Age of Enlightenment, the prehistoric people who figured out herbal medicine, the Chinese who treated PMS with acupuncture thousands of years ago, the tribal midwives in Africa who figured how to do a safe C section while Western medical schools still had rats and filth in the classrooms?
Good points. I won’t try to speak for Mr. S, but I think he might have been referring to the specific science of astronomy and/or astrophysics. (In 1974, Logical Positivism wasn’t quite dead yet, y’know…)
Ah. Makes sense.