Monday, November 5, 2012

effects of folly

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. - Herbert Spencer

quoted in Trivers' The Folly of Fools

Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory is supported by no facts at all. Like the majority of men who are born to a given belief, they demand the most rigorous proof of any adverse belief, but assume that their own needs none. - Ibid

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