It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not, so long as it makes you feel good, as it is not to care — Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not, so long as it makes you feel good, as it is not to care — Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not, so long as it makes you feel good, as it is not to care — Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not, so long as it makes you feel good, as it is not to care — Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not, so long as it makes you feel good, as it is not to care — Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not, so long as it makes you feel good, as it is not to care how you got your money as long as you have got it.

— Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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