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Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Book by Carl Sagan · 4 quotes · Religion, Pseudoscience, Ifs

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“In the middle 1970s an astronomer I admire put together a modest manifesto called "Objections to Astrology" and asked me to endorse it. I struggled with his wording, and in the end found myself unable to sign, not because I thought astrology has any validity whatever, but because I felt (and still feel) that the tone of the statement was authoritarian.”

“It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”

“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.”