It goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is…

Carl Sagan
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It goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is, not to foist our emotional predispositions on it but to courageously accept what our explorations tell us. ✨ Carl Sagan (2006). The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God, p.197, Penguin
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It goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is, not to foist our emotional predispositions on it but to courageously accept what our explorations tell us. ✨ Carl Sagan (2006). The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God, p.197, Penguin

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