Pseudoscience is embraced, it might be argued, in exact proportion as real science is misunderstood.
Carl SaganThe technological perils that science serves up, its implicit challenge to received wisdom, and its perceived difficulty, are all reasons for some people to mistrust and avoid it.
Carl SaganThe method of science, as stodgy and grumpy as it may seem, is far more important than the findings of science.
Carl SaganPseudoscience speaks to powerful emotional needs that science often leaves unfulfilled. It caters to fantasies about personal powers we lack and long for.
Carl SaganWhen we are self-indulgent and uncritical, when we confuse hopes and facts, we slide into pseudoscience and superstition.
Carl SaganThe values of science and the values of democracy are concordant, in many cases indistinguishable.
Carl SaganThe notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
Carl SaganScientists make mistakes. Accordingly, it is the job of the scientist to recognize our weakness, to examine the widest range of opinions, to be ruthlessly self-critical. Science is a collective enterprise with the error-correction machinery often running smoothly.
Carl SaganIt is a characteristic conceit of our species to put human face on random cosmic violence.
Carl SaganKeeping an open mind is a virtue—but, as the space engineer James Oberg once said, not so open that your brains fall out.
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