much skepticism, there is also little encouragement of this stirring sense
of wonder. Science and pseudoscience both arouse that feeling. Poor
popularizations of science establish an ecological niche for pseudoscience.
- -- Carl Sagan, The Burden Of Skepticism, The Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 12, Fall 87
+ -- Carl Sagan, The Burden Of Skepticism, The Skeptical Inquirer,
+ Vol. 12, Fall 87
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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
"...proper attention to Earthly needs of the poor, the depressed and the
downtrodden, would naturally evolve from dynamic, articulate, spirited
awareness of the great goals for Man and the society he conspired to erect."
- -- David Baker, paraphrasing Harold Urey, in "The History of Manned Space Flight"
+ -- David Baker, paraphrasing Harold Urey, in "The History of
+ Manned Space Flight"
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"Athens built the Acropolis. Corinth was a commercial city, interested in
purely materialistic things. Today we admire Athens, visit it, preserve the
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"By long-standing tradition, I take this opportunity to savage other
designers in the thin disguise of good, clean fun."
- -- P. J. Plauger, from his April Fool's column in April 88's "Computer Language"
+ -- P. J. Plauger, from his April Fool's column in April 88's
+ "Computer Language"
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"If you want to eat hippopotamus, you've got to pay the freight."
-- attributed to an IBM guy, about why IBM software uses so much memory
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