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Hope and Science Is there hope without science? Were would be if science never emerge? For sure this paper would have never been written as the means, the knowledge and the level of consciousness required to write it wouldn't exist. The world as we know it would have been an illusion. While we reconize the importance of science, why then the system we live in tolarates ignorance, supports " a nation of suckers...up for grabs by the next charlatan who saunters along" (Sagan, 395)? As Carl Sagan mentions in his work "Science and democracy began-in their civilized incarnations-in the same time and place, Greece in the seventh and sixth centuries B.C. This is a idicator of the importance of science in society. The bases od the civilized world are founded in science, and it would be a big mistake to neglect its spreading to everyone. A building with rotten foundation will collapse sooner or latter and history has a lot of examples. great civilizations like Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, The Roman Empire collapsed slowly but surely when they shifted their attention from science to other issues like: invasive war, immense wealth, and frantic personal pleasures. We may seem so sure in the system we live in, but is not to be f