The Demon Haunted World Quotes

“The truth may be puzzling or counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held beliefs. Experiment is how we get a handle on it.”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

topic:truth

“if we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been...”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

topic:truth

“the history of science . . . teaches that the most we can hope for is successive improvement in our understanding, learning from our mistakes, an asymptotic approach to the Universe, but with the proviso that absolute certainty will always elude us.”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

topic:knowledgescience

“the cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

topic:freedomspeech

“We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements . . . profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster.”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

topic:understandingscience

“The power which a man's imagination has over his body to heal it or make it sick is a force which none of us is born without.”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

topic:powerimaginationbody

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

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

topic:realityuniverse

“Religions are often the state-protected nurseries of pseudoscience”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

topic:religionscience

“Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

topic:stupidityignorancemisery

“nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

topic:nature