So, can science provide all the answers to our questions? Well, the short answer is no; Science is unable to instruct us on how to use scientific knowledge, let alone ensure whether we have the intellectual capacity to exploit the knowledge revealed through science. Sagan then directs our attention to a less complicated topic than our quest for knowledge of the Universe; when he asks "Can we know... in detail a grain of salt?" We all know what a grain of salt is; or do we? When Sagan discusses the atomic composition of a grain of salt and its "1016 sodium and chlorine atoms," molecular composition. The ability of science to provide all the knowledge in the universe became a sad reality, when Sagan drew our attention to the fact that “the total number of things knowable by the brain is not more than 1014…, but this number is only 1 % of the number of atoms in our grain of salt. Thus, this case is closed for science's ability to provide humanity with the ability to fully understand the universe, through the knowledge that it
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