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Though he knows that knowledge is imperfect, he trusts it alone. If he takes, therefore, the less delight in metaphysics, he takes the more in physics.

— Carl Van Doren Why I am Not a Believer (1926)

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I perceive that the race of men, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.

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