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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
... Reality is under no obligation to conform to human needs, desires, abstractions, or intuitions.
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Originally Posted by FlorenceArt
I wish I'd said that! Thank you Tom ...
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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
Thank you. I believe that it was Carl Sagan who first said, "Nature is under no obligation to conform to our expectations," but I can find no source for that quotation. It may have come from his TV series, Cosmos. Since many have played upon those words, I felt no compunction about adding my own twist.
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It
was Sagan. I
knew it was Sagan! I copied the quote myself from the TV series, but these days, I always check the source first; because even when I
know I'm right—even when I'm
100% positive that there could be no mistake on my part—sometimes I'm wrong.
Here's the exact wording:
.....Nature is not obliged to follow our speculations.
..........— Carl Edward Sagan (1934 –1996), American astronomer, astrophysicist, author, cosmologist. From the TV series,
Cosmos.
Of course, that's not to say that
he didn't borrow it from an older source.