Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? There isn't a religion on the planet that doesn't long for a comparable ability - precise, and repeatedly demonstrated before committed skeptics - to foretell future events. No other human institution comes close.

Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan

American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author

9 November 1934 — 20 December 1996

Carl Sagan: The Demon-Haunted World

The Demon-Haunted World

Chapter 2

Ballantine Books

Esoteric
Science

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