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Thursday, November 26, 2020

"It turns out that the scientist behaves the way the rest of us do when our beliefs are in conflict with the evidence. We become irritated, we pretend the conflict does not exist, or we paper it over with meaningless phrases."

Robert Jastrow, in God and the Astronomers
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