Dr. Carl Sagan on the Dangers of Dogmatism and the Importance of Scientific Skepticism

Today’s world needs Carl Sagan more than ever

Sunny Labh
4 min readMar 16

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Dr Carl Sagan at the Great Peace March in Washington, D.C., 1986. Image credit and source.

“At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes — an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and

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Sunny Labh

Science writer and communicator majoring in Quantum Mechanics. Curator of @PhysInHistory on twitter. Email: thepiggsboson@gmail.com