There is much that science doesn't understand, many mysterie... - Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

"There is much that science doesn't understand, many mysteries still to be resolved. In a Universe tens of billions of light-years across and some ten or fifteen billion years old, this may be the case forever. We are constantly stumbling on new surprises"

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