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• Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
  -- Carl Sagan (1934- ) quoted in Time 20 Oct. 1980...
• At the heart of science is an essential tension between two seemingly contradictory attitudes -- an openness to new idea
  o matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new....
• At the heart of science is an essential tension between two seemingly contradictory attitudes -- an openness to new idea
  o matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new....
• I believe that part of what propels science is the thirst for wonder.
  It's a very powerful emotion. All children feel it....
• I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience.
  And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true....
• Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves, but to the Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we sprang.
  -- Carl Saga...
• In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argume
  my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again....
• In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argume
  my position is mistaken,' and then they actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again....
• If science were explained to the average person in a way that is accessible and exciting, there would be no room for pseudoscience.
  But there is a kind of Gresham's Law by which in popular culture the bad science drives out the good....