Pseudoscience quotes

• Edmund Way Teale 1950, quoted in Sagan 1996 p12.
• It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not as it is not to care how you got our money as long as you have it.
• Trotsky 1933, quoted in Sagan 1996 p16.
• Today, not only in peasant homes but also in city skyscrapers, there lives alongside of the twentieth century the tenth or the thirteenth. A hundred million people use electricity and still believe in the magic power of signs and exorcisms. The Pope of Rome broadcasts over the radio about the miraculous transformation of water into wine. Movie stars go to mediums. Aviators who pilot miraculous mechanisms created by man's genius wear amulets on their sweaters. What inexhaustible reserves they possess of darkness, ignorance, and savagery! ¹