After I give lectures-on almost any subject-I am often asked, Do you b…

Carl Sagan
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After I give lectures-on almost any subject-I am often asked, Do you believe in UFOs? I'm always struck by how the question is phrased, the suggestion that this is a matter of belief and not evidence. I'm almost never asked, How good is the evidence that UFOs are alien spaceships? ✨ Carl Sagan (2011). The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, p.82, Ballantine Books
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