Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you …

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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world. ✨ Carl Sagan (2011). Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, p.48, Ballantine Books
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