Best review of #Cosmos yet!

"As we face an all-out assault on science and the principles that inform it — a dogma-driven, results-focused culture of denial and institutionally reinforced ignorance, as we strip science curricula from schools and research funding from budgets — we need Cosmos more than ever. Carl Sagan’s Spaceship of the Imagination isn’t just a convenient metaphor. It’s an ark, whose trajectory has the potential to change the course of our culture, and, possibly, our future.

Above all, Cosmos is an invitation: to wonder, to explore, to ask, and to discover. It’s an outstretched hand, welcoming watchers to a universe extending beyond the outer limits of their own experience and knowledge.

Cosmos isn’t about berating people for their ignorance; it’s about offering them something worth learning, and the means to reach it. It was never an argument. It set out to share, not to convince. And, as a result, it’s one of the most powerful pieces of scientific evangelism ever produced."

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/07/cosmos-neil-degrasse-tyson

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