college, early 1950s, began learn a little science works, secrets grea — Carl Sagan, Demon-Haunted World: Science a Candle Dark

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In college, in the early 1950s, I began to learn a little about how science works, the secrets of its great success, how rigorous the standards of evidence must be if we are really to know something is true, how many false starts and dead ends have plagued human thinking, how our biases can colour our interpretation of evidence, and how often belief systems widely held and supported by the political, religious and academic hierarchies turn out to be not just slightly in error, but grotesquely wrong.

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

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