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Science.
Nonfiction.
HTML:A prescient warning of a future we now inhabit, where fake news stories and Internet conspiracy theories play to a disaffected American populace A glorious book . . . A spirited defense of science . . . From the first page to the last, this book is a manifesto for clear thought.Los Angeles Times How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we dont understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science? Pulitzer Prize-winning author and distinguished astronomer Carl Sagan argues that scientific thinking is critical not only to the pursuit of truth but to the very well-being of our democratic institutions. Casting a wide net through history and culture, Sagan examines and authoritatively debunks such celebrated fallacies of the past as witchcraft, faith healing, demons, and UFOs. And yet, disturbingly, in today's so-called information age, pseudoscience is burgeoning with stories of alien abduction, channeling past lives, and communal hallucinations commanding growing attention and respect. As Sagan demonstrates with lucid eloquence, the siren song of unreason is not just a cultural wrong turn but a dangerous plunge into darkness that threatens our most basic freedoms. Praise for The Demon-Haunted World Powerful . . . A stirring defense of informed rationality. . . Rich in surprising information and beautiful writing.The Washington Post Book World Compelling.USA Today A clear vision of what good science means and why it makes a difference. . . . A testimonial to the power of science and a warning of the dangers of unrestrained credulity.The Sciences Passionate.San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle.… (mais)
Usuário anônimo: Carl Sagan references this book several times in "Demon-Haunted World"; its full title is "Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds", and it was authored by Charles Mackay in 1841.
Assombrado com a escuridão que parece tomar conta do mundo, onde explicações pseudocientíficas e místicas ocupam cada vez mais os espaços dos meios de comunicação, Carl Sagan acende a vela do conhecimento científico para tentar iluminar os dias de hoje e recuperar os valores da racionalidade. Em meio a anjos e ETs, astrólogos e médiuns, fundamentalismos religiosos e filosofias alternativas, dois mais dois continuam a ser quatro e as leis da mecânica quântica permanecem valendo em qualquer parte do planeta. Este livro é uma reafirmação plena do poder positivo e benéfico da Ciência e da Tecnologia.
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
We wait for light, but behold darkness. ISAIAH 59:9
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness. ADAGE
Dedicatória
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
TO TONIO, MY GRANDSON.
I WISH YOU A WORLD FREE OF DEMONS AND FULL OF LIGHT
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
It was a blustery fall day in 1939. --Preface
As I got off the plane, he was waiting for me, holding up a scrap of cardboard with my name scribbled on it. --Body text
Citações
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Mr. Buckley - well-spoken, intelligent, curious - had heard virtually nothing of modern science. He had a natural appetite for the wonders of the Universe. He wanted to know about science. It's just that all the science had gotten filtered out before it reached him. Our cultural motifs, our educational system, our communications media had failed this man. What the society permitted to trickle through was mainly pretense and confusion. It had never taught him how to distinguish real science from the cheap imitation. He knew nothing about how science works.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness.
Science.
Nonfiction.
HTML:A prescient warning of a future we now inhabit, where fake news stories and Internet conspiracy theories play to a disaffected American populace A glorious book . . . A spirited defense of science . . . From the first page to the last, this book is a manifesto for clear thought.Los Angeles Times How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we dont understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science? Pulitzer Prize-winning author and distinguished astronomer Carl Sagan argues that scientific thinking is critical not only to the pursuit of truth but to the very well-being of our democratic institutions. Casting a wide net through history and culture, Sagan examines and authoritatively debunks such celebrated fallacies of the past as witchcraft, faith healing, demons, and UFOs. And yet, disturbingly, in today's so-called information age, pseudoscience is burgeoning with stories of alien abduction, channeling past lives, and communal hallucinations commanding growing attention and respect. As Sagan demonstrates with lucid eloquence, the siren song of unreason is not just a cultural wrong turn but a dangerous plunge into darkness that threatens our most basic freedoms. Praise for The Demon-Haunted World Powerful . . . A stirring defense of informed rationality. . . Rich in surprising information and beautiful writing.The Washington Post Book World Compelling.USA Today A clear vision of what good science means and why it makes a difference. . . . A testimonial to the power of science and a warning of the dangers of unrestrained credulity.The Sciences Passionate.San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle.
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