us cherish beliefs. are, a degree, self-defining. someone comes along — Carl Sagan, Demon-Haunted World: Science a Candle Dark

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All of us cherish our beliefs. They are, to a degree, self-defining. When someone comes along who challenges our belief system as insufficiently well based – or who, like Socrates, merely asks embarrassing questions that we haven't thought of, or demonstrates that we've swept key underlying assumptions under the rug – it becomes much more than a search for knowledge. It feels like a personal assault.

Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

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