this post was submitted on 20 Apr 2025
1 points (66.7% liked)

April 20 - Pale Blue Dot Day - Science Holiday / Party Day

55 readers
3 users here now

April 20 of every year, can we make it a Science themed holiday, Pale Blue Dot?

In the spirit of Mr. X, Carl Sagan? https://www.theguardian.com/science/1999/aug/24/spaceexploration

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light‐years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual. So are our emotions in the presence of great art or music or literature, or acts of exemplary selfless courage such as those of Mohandas Gandhi or Martin Luther King, Jr. The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

no comments (yet)
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
there doesn't seem to be anything here