Carl Sagan: “The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true. We have a method, and that method helps us to reach not absolute truth, only asymptotic approaches to the truth — never there, just closer and closer, always finding vast new oceans of undiscovered possibilities. Cleverly designed experiments are the key.”
“Wonder and Skepticism”, Skeptical Inquirer 19 (1), January-February 1995, ISSN 0194-6730
https://www.jcf.org/works/downloads/lecture-i-1-4-new-horizons/
https://open.spotify.com/album/3jEyxUxO2F1rlF7DQHXBEB
NOTE: jcf .org broke their link? Why. Not impressed at all that they don’t maintain links from August 2021. I think it is a disservice to the world, humankind, that they have not made these lectures from a man who died in 1987 public domain for the sake of world peace. And what money they gather for their foundation doesn’t seem to go towards getting the word out to Star Wars fans, etc.