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I don’t propose that it is a virtue to revel in our limitations. But it’s important to understand how much we do not know

I don’t propose that it is a virtue to revel in our limitations. But it’s important to understand how much we do not know

December 3, 2016 Nate

– Carl Sagan

I don’t propose that it is a virtue to revel in our limitations. But it’s important to understand how much we do not know.”


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