The hard but just rule is that if the ideas don`t work, you must throw them away. Don`t waste any neurons on what doesn`t work. Devote those neurons to new ideas that better explain the data. Valid criticism is doing you a favor.

Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan

American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author

9 November 1934 — 20 December 1996

published in The Skeptical Inquirer, 1995 January-Februray

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