DOES TRUTH MATTER?
SCIENCE, PSEUDOSCIENCE,
AND CIVILIZATION.
CARL SAGAN
Science has beauty, power, and majesty that can provide
spiritual as well as practical fulfillment.
But superstition and
pseudoscience keep getting in the way, providing...
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DOES TRUTH MATTER?
SCIENCE, PSEUDOSCIENCE,
AND CIVILIZATION.
CARL SAGAN
Science has beauty, power, and majesty that can provide
spiritual as well as practical fulfillment.
But superstition and
pseudoscience keep getting in the way, providing easy answers,
casually pressing our awe buttons, and cheapening the
experience.
Do we care what s true? Does it matter?
.
.
.
where ignorance is bliss, Tis folly to be wise
wrote the poet Thomas Gray.
But is it? Edmund Way Teale in
his 1950 book Circle of the Seasons understood the dilemma
better:
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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