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

Book by Carl Sagan · 6 quotes · Religion, Pseudoscience, Ifs

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“Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us - then, habits of thought familiar from ages past reach for the controls.”

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