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

The Demon-Haunted World - Carl Sagan

I’ll echo the Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan. Recently, I finished the making of the atomic bomb by Richard Rhodes. It’s quite long, but a fascinating view on physics, weapon development, and then the politics of the bomb. It’s a good exercise to compare with the current state of AI and see what things are similar and what are different.

Language in Thought and Action by S.I. Hayakawa Metaphors We Live By by Lakoff and Johnson The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker Tao Te Ching (various translators)

Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan too.

Maybe it's been read already by anyone here, but Carl Sagan's "The demon-haunted world" turned me into an atheist and made me appreciate much more science and the scientific method in general. The irony part is I got to read it because a the logic teacher in my catholic nun-ruled school suggested it.

I grew up studying in a catholic school. Once a teacher that was involved with the convent, teaching us some logic basics, gave us some copies from the chapter 2 of Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World as a recommended lecture. Could get the whole book and read it and ended becoming an atheist.

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, by Carl Sagan. It changed the way I see the world, how to have a sceptical mind and not only how but why one should question. And also, it shows to me that, if you don't have a answer for something, doesn't mean that it can not be true. It's just that you don't know. And for a lot of things, this is the correct and only answer that we can have now.

accelerando - Charles Stross It blew my mind from beginning to end. Loved every shred of concept and potential. Glasshouse is close 2nd Demon Haunted World is a solid 3rd

The Demon Haunted World, by Carl Sagan. It showed me that the questions I'd always had were real, and finally let me break free :)

Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson, Illuminatus! Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World. Daniel Dennett, Consciousness Explained. T.H. White, The Once and Future King. George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia.

The Demon Haunted World - Carl Sagan. Corny as it sounds,, that book changed my way of thinking and indeed my life when I was around 18yo.