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Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
by Carl Sagan
informative
slow-paced
The Demon-Haunted World is Sagan's cry towards the use of democracy, skepticism, and the scientific method as the candles that can lead us, humanity, through a world that is darkened by schools of thought that would otherwise lead us astray.
Sagan comes across as a person who is at once both highly optimistic about the potential future of humanity, but also someone who has been embittered by organized religion, lackluster education, and structures of power that divert attention away from scientific progress. He sees the way that science has been vilified since the crystallization of its ethos. The book is Sagan pleading the everyday human to be critical of outside powers in your life, to be curious and imaginative about nature, and value the progression of human knowledge no matter what direction it might take us.
Sagan comes across as a person who is at once both highly optimistic about the potential future of humanity, but also someone who has been embittered by organized religion, lackluster education, and structures of power that divert attention away from scientific progress. He sees the way that science has been vilified since the crystallization of its ethos. The book is Sagan pleading the everyday human to be critical of outside powers in your life, to be curious and imaginative about nature, and value the progression of human knowledge no matter what direction it might take us.