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+1 Carl Sagan. I need to read that thing myself though. OH! I have a good one!! There are 3 “Science of DiscWorld” books that take the subject of the creation of the Universe, The development of Culture, and Evolution, and put it into an entertaining package thats fun to read and is very informative. Basically, the Wizards from the DiscWorld series visit our world and we see their reaction to a world governed by science/laws/reality rather then MAGIC.
Wow, I too needed to hear some deep insight such as the one by Goering. Sometimes – maybe it is just my paranoia – the whole country seems like something out of George Orwell's novel 1984. Sidetracking off the topic a little bit, I am also reminded of something said by astronomer Carl Sagan (these were not his exact words)
“In politics, the highest rewards go to people who assure you that everything is all right, that what they have been telling you is true. In science, the highest rewards go to people who logically destroy what is accepted as truth.”
The statement that we are all “star stuff,” coined by the late astronomer Carl Sagan (not sure if this was before or after Joni Mitchell sang “we are stardust; we are golden. we are billion year old carbon”), is meant to imply more than that we are made of the same elements that stars are made of. Beyond that, the elements themselves (carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, etc.) were synthesized, cooked up as it were, in the nuclear furnaces that are the deep interior of stars. These elements are then released at the end of a star’s lifetime when it explodes, and subsequently incorporated into a new generation of stars — and into the planets that form around the stars, and the lifeforms that originate on the planets.