„It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.“

— Carl Sagan

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„The history of science—especially physics—has in part been the tension between the natural tendency to project our everyday experience on the universe and the universe's noncompliance…“
— Carl Sagan
„I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist’s hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion.“
— Frank Lloyd Wright
„Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.“
— Carl Sagan