“It is the birthright of every child to encounter the cosmos anew, in every culture and every age. When this happens to us, we experience a deep sense of wonder. The most fortunate among us are guided by teachers who channel this exhilaration. We are born to delight in the world. We are taught to distinguish our preconceptions from the truth. Then, new worlds are discovered as we decipher the mysteries of the cosmos.” Carl Sagan

“Science is too important not to be part of popular culture. It is, as Carl Sagan always emphasized, "it is absolutely the foundation of our society, we live in a scientific society”, so to have a society where science is some how divorced from the rest of culture is seems to me as Sagan said again “Anti-democratic”. It is anti-democratic cause you have people who live in democracy who lives are controlled by scientific decisions. If they no nothing about the science, then there is a democratic deficit. And you have problems because society can make decisions that are not based on reason.“ Professor Brian Cox