“The integrity of the experimenters in the face of this unexp…”

“The integrity of the experimenters in the face of this unexpected finding is breathtaking. (It is difficult to imagine any experiment that would convince leading practitioners of many political or religious philosophies of the superiority of a competing doctrine.)”

— Carl Sagan

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Chapter 8, “The Future Evolution of the Brain” (p. 210)

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

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