“Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?”
— Carl Sagan
Simplified Meaning:
The idea is that a scientist who is ready to learn from the universe is more humble than someone who claims a book is completely true without questioning it.
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