[In] everyday life, it is very rare that we are confronted....

“ [In] everyday life, it is very rare that we are confronted with new facts about events of long ago. Our memories are almost never challenged. They can, instead, be frozen in place, no matter how flawed they are, or become a work in continual artistic revision. ”

Carl Sagan

From : The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark