Carl Sagan's The Demon-haunted World

I just finished the aforementioned book. I have previously read Cosmos, which was a good book, but this was…well, it was something else.

When I am reading a book and come across something particularly poignant and worthwhile, I like to share it with people who are interested in my thoughts and opinions (e.g. you—anyone who isn’t interested shouldn’t be reading my blog; it will bore them). Reading The Demon-haunted World, I quickly hit on such a passage and stuck a temporary bookmark to remember it when next I sat at a computer.

But then I hit upon another passage…and another. In fact, I soon realised that every chapter of this book has at least three or four passages I would really like to quote in full. If I were to paste them all, not only would it annoy you guys to have to read so many things out of context; I might well be at serious risk of falling afoul of copyright law…

…But then, a book where every single chapter has several very worthwhile passages can be more succinctly summarised as a worthwhile book. Go read it. Dr. Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark.