“Something dreadful happens to students between first and twelfth grades, and it's not just puberty.”

—  Carl Sagan

http://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/carl-sagan-science-is-a-way-of-thinking/
Carl Sagan: 'Science Is a Way of Thinking', Science Friday interview from May 1996
27 December 2013

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