"We've arranged a society on science and technology in which nobody understands anything about science and technology, 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?"
"If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along..."
"People read the stock market quotations and financial pages. Look how complex that is. Understanding science is not more difficult than that. It does not involve greater intellectual activity."
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