Far More Compelling And Exciting

I believe that even a smattering of such findings in modern science and mathematics is far more compelling and exciting than most of the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the fifth century B.C. by the Ionian philosopher Heraclitus as “nightwalkers, magicians, priests of Bacchus, priestesses of the wine-vat, mystery-mongers.”  But science is more intricate and subtle, reveals a much richer universe, and powerfully evokes our sense of wonder.  And it has the additional and important virtue — to whatever extent the word has any meaning — of being true.
—    Carl Sagan
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Click here (29 January) to see the posts of prior years.  I started this blog in late 2009.  Daily posting began in late January 2011.  Not all of the days in the early years (2009-2010) will have posts.

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