Carl Sagan Quotes
Nobody listens to mathematicians.
Sagan, Carl. Contact. Simon & Schuster, 1985.
Most societies are organized in such a way that most middle and upper class people rarely interact with the chronically poor and rarely enter the ghettos where the poor tend to congregate. Even when beggars are visible in major streets, very few people, including those who may give the beggars some money, interact with the poor or relate to them in any personal way.
Referring to President Ronald Reagan whose administration was very good for the wealthy and the large corporations but economically was the start of a downward spiral in the income of the lower middle and lower classes of the society. Reagan and many politicians of both parties were often oblivious to the lives of people not in the upper strata of society. It was not so much that they were against the middle class and poor; they just did not have much contact with them and their plight was list in the averaging of economic statistics that showed increasing income.
Carl Edward Sagan was an American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and science communicator. His best known scientific contribution is research on extraterrestrial life, including experimental demonstration of the production of amino acids from basic chemicals by radiation. Sagan assembled the first physical messages sent into space: the Pioneer plaque and the Voyager Golden Record, universal messages intended to be understood by any extraterrestrial intelligence that might find them.
