There are a lot of T-shirts, posters, and memes in this world that say, Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.—Carl Sagan. He did not say this. It came from a Newsweek profile on him and somehow took on a life of its own. My mother and I find this slightly funny and slightly frustrating. My dad was so committed to accuracy that he would not have used the word incredible, because it literally means “not credible” and therefore the opposite of the kind of thing that’s out there waiting to be known.
