"Consider this point again.
Is here. It is our home.
It's us.
In it, everyone you love, everyone you know,
everyone you've ever heard of, every human being who ever lived
They lived their lives.
The totality of our joys and sufferings
thousands of religions, ideologies and economic doctrines,
every hunter and spoiler, every hero and coward,
every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and commoner,
every couple in love, every mother and father,
each hopeful children, inventors and explorers,
every educator, every corrupt politician, every superstar,
every “supreme leader”, every saint and sinner
in the history of our species lived there
in a grain of dust suspended in a ray of sunshine. "
This is an excerpt from a text Sagan wrote.
when the Voyager spacecraft had already passed a little bit of Jupiter.
There it had to turn off part of her systems
in order to keep working but Sagan before that
asked them to return the camera to Earth
to take one last picture.
There, almost, a little bit more
half a billion kilometers away
the earth is tiny, it is barely
a pale blue pixel
which symbolizes how small we are
in front of all our galaxy
and the infinity of our universe.
Astronomy is a great source of humility.
and perspective for humanity.
And Carl Sagan, maybe more than anyone,
managed to communicate this with the general public.
Sagan, maybe more than any
another scientific communicator,
managed to bring science and that look
to the general public.
Science, through your look, questions and detail
try to bring much more of your beauty,
It doesn't take away their beauty.
I keep thinking about Richard Feynman's dialogue with an artist friend
where they argued about how we look at flowers.
Through this curious and questioning look typical of what is done in science.
We don't just see the colors and shape of the flower there.
We do not only smell and smell its roots in the earth.
We see how this flower is inevitably linked to the ecosystem.
and to all living beings.
We feel its molecules that can mimic insects
and lure them to drink from their nectar.
We see in the most extreme case the atoms that make up
in a harmonious and absurd way, everything.
And makes the whole the whole.
Today we have seen the active effort to discredit science
They are the landplanists, the anti-vaccines, the climate change refutants
and this is worrying.
How did we manage to lose these people?
Because we can't communicate with them
and draw them into that wonderful and true look at our reality?
It seems very little, but this kind of behavior ends up fueling vile policies.
that end up sabotaging the scientific efforts of entire communities
and sabotage human progress.
Of course, we can't stop talking about the algorithmic logic of social networks.
that also encourage the use of sensational headlines
and sometimes there is not so much commitment to reality there.
We see these texts that sometimes are well meaning
but because of a language sometimes not so appropriate
reach an audience that doesn't feel that those texts and that scientific reality
It is part of your daily life.
Those texts, this logic of communication, are not part of their daily lives.
We need to understand these people better.
Understand sometimes better than our own objects of study.
Understand better than our scientific methods.
Understand how we can communicate with them.
Communicating effectively in science is possible and can be well done.
We can talk, of course, about Sagan, Bill Nye,
Neil deGrasse Tyson, by Marcelo Gleiser.
We can also talk about Beakman, who managed to stir up this curiosity
when we were still there, little one
about how things are and how they work.
We can talk about Nerdologia,
Pirula, BláBláLogia, Manual do Mundo, Felipe Castanhari,
what are these new fronts of scientific communication
and that bring a more empathetic and more accessible but more important speech,
A more passionate speech.
The role of these science communicators has never been so necessary.
It has never been more necessary to communicate with empathy, patience, love
for these people.
It has never been so necessary for us to inspire new minds and new children.
Sagan when he was doing his work inspired these people, inspired us.
We were inspired children, but we weren't the first
Newton was an inspired child,
Tyson was an inspired child,
Sagan was an inspired child,
Margaret Hamilton was an inspired child,
Ada Lovelace was an inspired child,
Nise da Silveira was an inspired child,
Nicolelis was an inspired child,
Marie Curie was an inspired child.
No rights are guaranteed, everything has to be worked
no inspiration can survive unless it is encouraged.
And without new children inspired today, we sabotage the progress of all humanity
and sabotages also the continuity of this legacy that is so important to us
because it's so human.
