For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
-Carl Sagan
This site’s namesake is actually taken from astrophysicist Carl Sagan’s work, The Demon Haunted World: Science As A Candle In The Dark.
I chose that as the title because that particular work, as well as the man behind it, illustrate one of the most important tenets of skepticism; that we are not hopeless dots on a tiny blue planet, that we already have the tools needed to illuminate the world around us. Collectively, we refer to those tools as ‘science’.
Now with explosions!
