"It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
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Carl Sagan in: James A. Herrick The Making of the New Spirituality: The Eclipse of the Western Religious Tradition, InterVarsity Press, 2 December 2004, p. 109
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