Recent research shows that many children without enough to eat wind up with diminished capacity to understand and learn (โcognitive impairmentโ ). Children don't have to be starving for this to happen. Even mild undernourishment โ the kind most common among poor people in America โ can do it.
Carl SaganIf we're capable of conjuring up terrifying monsters in childhood, why shouldn't some of us, at least on occasion, be able to fantasize something similar, something truly horrifying, a shared delusion, as adults?
Carl SaganIf we say that God has always been, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always been?
Carl SaganScience arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience promptly fills. If it were widely understood that claims to knowledge require adequate evidence before they can be accepted, there would be no room for pseudoscience.
Carl Sagan