The book is devoted to ridding the world of non-existant demons and allowing us all to experience more light and knowledge.Įspecially useful to kids and to adults who haven't let go of superstition is Sagan's baloney detection tool
In between are a couple dozen chapters that touch on a variety of issues that everyone should appreciate. The chapters range in content from debunking UFO and alien abduction stories to calling for a higher realm of ethics for those who are scientists. The wonders of science are just as interesting (and far more reliable) than the wonders of other disciplines which rely on tradition, superstition, myth, or ignorance. Sagan does a masterful job of explaining what science is and what it isn't. It should be required reading before kids can graduate from high school (and for adults before they decide to raise their children up in any given religion). I began making a list of quotes from the book as I was reading it (a few of which you can find on this page),īut I soon realized that I would be copying about half of the book in so doing. Is bubbling up around us - then, habits of thought familiar from ages past Scarcity, during challenges to national self-esteem or nerve, when weĪgonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose, or when fanaticism
Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of Superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of
The Demon-Haunted World : Science As a Candle in the Dark "I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges near, pseudoscience and
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