Understanding is a kind of ecstasy ✨ Carl Sagan (2011). Broca's Brain:…

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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy ✨ Carl Sagan (2011). Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science, p.17, Ballantine Books
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It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science. ✨ Carl Sagan (2011). Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science, p.73, … ▶
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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It means nothing to be open to a proposition we don't understand. ✨ Carl Sagan (2011). Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, p.393, Ballantine Books
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy ✨ Carl Sagan (2011). Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science, p.17, Ballantine Books

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