Absolut sehenswert: James Randi spricht über Carl Sagan:
Ich denke, das Video spricht für sich selbst. Ich kann James Randi nur absolut zustimmen. Aber ein Zitat (es gibt so viele, die erwähnenswert wären…) von Carl Sagan (aus seinem genialen Buch “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark“) möchte ich hier trotzdem nochmal wiederholen:
“I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudoscience and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive. Where have we heard it before? Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self-esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us-then, habits of thought familiar from ages past reach for the controls.
The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir. “
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