In a way, science might be described as paranoid thinking applied to Nature: we are looking for natural conspiracies, for connections among apparently disparate data. Our objective is to abstract patterns from Nature (right-hemisphere thinking), but many proposed patterns do not in fact correspond to thedata. Thus all proposed patterns must be subjected to the sieve of critical analysis (left-hemisphere thinking).
-Carl Sagan
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