“Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world.”

— Carl Sagan , book The Demon-Haunted World

"With Science on Our Side" https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1994/01/09/with-science-on-our-side/9e5d2141-9d53-4b4b-aa0f-7a6a0faff845/, Washington Post (January 9, 1994)
Variant: Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world.
Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

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