We have created a culture whose most significant elements are essentially based on science and technology. However, we have simultaneously organized everything around us in such a way that almost no one understands science and technology. This is the ideal recipe for our future destruction!
We may stray a little from time to time, but sooner or later, a combustible mixture of ignorance and power will explode right before our eyes. I worry, especially now, in the transition from the 2nd to the 3rd millennium, because pseudo-science and superstitions will become more and more alluring year after year, the song of the absurd sirens more melodious and seductive.
Under what conditions do we create such grim darkness around us? When racial prejudices are raised, in times of deprivation or wars, during periods when our national self-esteem or courage is challenged, when we are anxious about the reduction of our living space or distracted from our true purpose, when fanaticism and ignorance blaze around us. It is then that the same obscurantist views, known from the distant past, try to take control.
The candle's flame wanes. The scant light flickers. Darkness spreads. The demons awaken.
[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]
Manufacturer
- Author
- Carl Sagan
- Publisher
- Esoptron
- Original Title
- The Demon-haunted World
- Translation
- Aemilia Manousi
- Subtitle
- Science: Candle in the dark
- Theme
- Theology & Doctrine
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 462
- Language
- Greek
- Release Date
- 1/1998
- Publication Date
- 1998
- Dimensions
- 17x24 cm
- Pocket Size
- No
- Award
- -
- ISBN-13
- 9789607228321
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