“It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their
passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it
not stirring to understand how the world actually works—that white light
is made of colors, that color is the way we perceive the wavelengths of
light, that transparent air reflects light, that in so doing it
discriminates among the waves, and that the sky is blue for the same
reason that the sunset is red? It does no harm to the romance of the
sunset to know a little bit about it.” – Carl Sagan
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