As a child, I was aware that, at night, infrared vision would reveal monsters hiding in the bedroom closet only if they were warm-blooded. But everybody knows that your average bedroom monster is reptilian and cold-blooded.

Neil Degrasse Tyson
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In a famous anecdote, this phrase by Dr. Seuss is used to explain the difference between the way things look and the way they actually are. In this case, it is being used to explain how so many children believe that monsters hide in the closet when the monsters are really not there. In other words, our impressions of reality can be so misleading, so false that we have no choice but to correct them. Instead of believing that there are monsters in closets, we must remember that all of these things are illusions and will disappear.

Source: Death By Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

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