The world needs Carl Sagan now more than ever

The full title of the work was The Demon-haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark, and it was penned as an impassioned encouragement to use scientific thinking and the scientific method to ... Read More

Carl Sagan's Doomsaying Quote Hasn't Predicted The Future. Yet. - UPROXX

If you missed it, here’s the full passage, from Sagan’s book Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark: Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a ... Read More

Science should be a candle in the dark, but it’s being snuffed out

Recently I began to notice that all sorts of people on social media were recommending Carl Sagan’s 1995 book The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark.They quoted passages that ... Read More

Carl Sagan: 'Science Is a Way of Thinking' - Science Friday

In this archival interview from May 1996, Carl Sagan talks about his book The Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle In the Dark. It’s a wide-ranging conversation about pseudoscience, UFOs, the ... Read More

The Baloney Detection Kit - Forbes

Over the holiday break, I read ‘The Demon-Haunted Book: Science as a Candle in the Dark’ by Carl Sagan. The book is not nearly as well-known as "Cosmos" but should be. It introduces the ... Read More

Carl Sagan: The Demon-Haunted World - AV Club

The Demon-Haunted World is the Cosmos of ignorance, superstition and psueudoscience, explaining the altogether understandable and human reasons for belief in the irrational or impossible. Read More

This Carl Sagan Prediction from 1995 Is Surprisingly Correct - Yahoo

Carl Sagan may have died back in 1996, but one of his predictions has some people a little tweaked out 21 years later.. Making the rounds on Twitter and on reddit is a passage from Sagan’s Demon ... Read More

Carl Sagan - Mental Floss

Sagan had long held an interest in discussing aliens and UFOs, but by the time he wrote 1996's The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, he felt the time was right to demystify the ... Read More

Why Carl Sagan Thought Ancient Hunter-Gatherers Had Science

Yet despite this meager existence, legendary science communicator Carl Sagan thought there was a good chance that early hunter-gatherers were already practicing genuine science. As Sagan argued in his ... Read More

Sagan knew what was coming (letter) | Letters To The Editor ...

Carl Sagan predicted this 25 years ago — in his 1995 book “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark” — so beware the Ides of March: “I have a foreboding of an America in ... Read More