An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish
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- "The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion." --"An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish" in Unpopular Essays, 1950 --Bertrand Russell
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