The worst of all auguries is from consent in matters intellectual.
Francis Bacon, Novum Organum, section LXXVII.
I don’t get it.
“Just because many believe in something doesn’t make it true—the opposite, actually.” (This from Googling the too-short excerpt and reading a bit of the surrounding text.) He spoils it by excepting two domains, religion and politics.
the opposite, actually.
Ahem.
Francis Bacon, Novum Organum, section LXXVII.
I don’t get it.
“Just because many believe in something doesn’t make it true—the opposite, actually.” (This from Googling the too-short excerpt and reading a bit of the surrounding text.) He spoils it by excepting two domains, religion and politics.
Ahem.