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• I believe that part of what propels science is the thirst for wonder.
  It's a very powerful emotion. All children feel it....
• 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....
• I'm often asked the question, "Do you think there is extraterrestrial intelligence?
  I give the standard arguments -- there are a lot of places out there, and use the word *billions*, and so on....
• Creation science" has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention i
  because it is false, and because good teachers understand exactly why it is false....
• Another writer again agreed with all my generalities, but said that as an inveterate skeptic I have closed my mind to the truth.
  Most notably I have ignored the evidence for an Earth that is six thousand years old....
• Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
  -- Carl Saga...
• 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...
• Remember, there's more to life than science fiction, but not much
• Wish and hope succeed in discerning signs of paranormality where reason and careful scientific procedure fail.
  -- James E. Alcock, The Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 12...