Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.It's not easy to cut through a human head with a hacksaw.Professor Johnston often said that if you didn't know history, you didn't know anything. You were a leaf that didn't know it was part of a tree.Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.
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