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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark is a 1995 book by the astrophysicist Carl Sagan and …
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark is a 1995 book by …
A very enjoyable read. Sagan touches on so much pseudoscience that is prevalent in today's world, and warns us about the decline of critical thinking. He definitely shows prescience about today's political environment.
A very enjoyable read. Sagan touches on so much pseudoscience that is prevalent in today's world, and warns us about the decline of critical thinking. He definitely shows prescience about today's political environment.
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Closing in on the end of this wonderful book.
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[M]arginally literate poorer people tend not to understand ballot initiatives that might help them and their children, and in stunningly disproportionate numbers fail to vote at all. This works to undermine democracy at its roots.
— The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan (Page 358)
Sagan warned us about the Conservative attack on education.
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There was a most revealing rule: Slaves were to remain illiterate. In the antebellum South, whites who taught a slave to read were severely punished…. This is why the slaveholders must control what slaves hear and see and think. This is why reading and critical thinking are dangerous, indeed subversive, in an unjust society.
— The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan (Page 355)
This sounds frighteningly familiar to today's Conservative view on education, science, and their practitioners.
This sounds frighteningly familiar to today's Conservative view on education, science, and their practitioners.
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Another hour, another chapter.
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark is a 1995 book by …
I’ve had this book put aside for a while, but am picking it up, once again while on vacation.
And I’m still loving it!
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As Tom Paine warned, inuring us to lies lays the groundwork for many other evils.
— The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan (Page 208)
Apropos to today’s political climate, in the US at least, and probably many other countries as well.
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There is genuine scientific paydirt in UFOs and alien abductions – but it is, I think, of a distinctly homegrown and terrestrial character.
— The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan (Page 188)
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark is a 1995 book by …
Finally getting back to reading this excellent book!
