(1934-1996) American Astronomer, Astrochemist [Carl Sagan at Amazon]
They laughed at Galileo. They laughed at Newton. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
What’s the harm of a little mystification? It sure beats boring statistical analyses.
It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.