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It is a great mistake to think that the motive which leads a man to seek knowledge is always a desire for it. Much more often it is a desire for certainty, and the two are very different things.
— Bertrand Russell, On the Value of Scepticism (1928)

2w ago

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion.

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