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"An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles of our forefathers, which enables us to breathe amid the various and complex circumstances of our life."
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"To sum up: it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."


"It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."


"If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest."


"The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery."


"If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future."


"The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs."


"In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts."


"We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra."


"The rule which should guide us in such cases is simple and obvious enough: that the aggregate testimony of our neighbours is subject to the same conditions as the testimony of any one of them."
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