“Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe …”

“Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever it has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?”

— Carl Sagan

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Title: Wikiquote: Carl Sagan
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Context

Charlie Rose: An Interview with Carl Sagan, May 27, 1996.

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Sagan, Carl. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Carl Sagan. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan

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