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Ann Druyan Quotes: If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic.
         

If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic.


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If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic.
         



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People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say thats completely opposite of the truth.





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