Those who make uncritical observations or fraudulent claims lead us into error and deflect us from the major human goal — Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
Those who make uncritical observations or fraudulent claims lead us into error and deflect us from the major human goal — Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
Those who make uncritical observations or fraudulent claims lead us into error and deflect us from the major human goal — Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
Those who make uncritical observations or fraudulent claims lead us into error and deflect us from the major human goal — Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
Those who make uncritical observations or fraudulent claims lead us into error and deflect us from the major human goal — Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
Those who make uncritical observations or fraudulent claims lead us into error and deflect us from the major human goal — Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
Those who make uncritical observations or fraudulent claims lead us into error and deflect us from the major human goal — Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
Those who make uncritical observations or fraudulent claims lead us into error and deflect us from the major human goal — Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
Those who make uncritical observations or fraudulent claims lead us into error and deflect us from the major human goal — Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
Those who make uncritical observations or fraudulent claims lead us into error and deflect us from the major human goal — Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
Those who make uncritical observations or fraudulent claims lead us into error and deflect us from the major human goal — Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
Those who make uncritical observations or fraudulent claims lead us into error and deflect us from the major human goal — Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
Those who make uncritical observations or fraudulent claims lead us into error and deflect us from the major human goal — Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
Those who make uncritical observations or fraudulent claims lead us into error and deflect us from the major human goal — Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
Those who make uncritical observations or fraudulent claims lead us into error and deflect us from the major human goal — Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
Those who make uncritical observations or fraudulent claims lead us into error and deflect us from the major human goal — Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
Those who make uncritical observations or fraudulent claims lead us into error and deflect us from the major human goal — Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
Those who make uncritical observations or fraudulent claims lead us into error and deflect us from the major human goal — Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
Those who make uncritical observations or fraudulent claims lead us into error and deflect us from the major human goal — Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
Those who make uncritical observations or fraudulent claims lead us into error and deflect us from the major human goal — Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
Those who make uncritical observations or fraudulent claims lead us into error and deflect us from the major human goal — Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
Those who make uncritical observations or fraudulent claims lead us into error and deflect us from the major human goal — Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
Those who make uncritical observations or fraudulent claims lead us into error and deflect us from the major human goal — Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
Those who make uncritical observations or fraudulent claims lead us into error and deflect us from the major human goal — Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
Those who make uncritical observations or fraudulent claims lead us into error and deflect us from the major human goal — Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
Those who make uncritical observations or fraudulent claims lead us into error and deflect us from the major human goal — Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
Those who make uncritical observations or fraudulent claims lead us into error and deflect us from the major human goal — Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
Those who make uncritical observations or fraudulent claims lead us into error and deflect us from the major human goal — Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
Those who make uncritical observations or fraudulent claims lead us into error and deflect us from the major human goal — Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
Those who make uncritical observations or fraudulent claims lead us into error and deflect us from the major human goal — Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
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Those who make uncritical observations or fraudulent claims lead us into error and deflect us from the major human goal of understanding how the world works. It is for this reason that playing fast and loose with the truth is a very serious matter.

— Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
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