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Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark Quotes: If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate. ... Choose science.
         

If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate. ... Choose science.


Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not, so long as it makes you feel good, as it is not to care how you got your money as long as you have got it.

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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.



Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are veridically worthless, whatever value the may have in inspiring us or in exciting our sense of wonder.

Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are veridically worthless, whatever value the may have in inspiring us or in exciting our sense of wonder.



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Liberation from superstition is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for science.



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All science asks is to employ the same levels of skepticism we use in buying a used car or in judging the quality of analgesics or beer from their television commercials.





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