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Facts do not 'speak for themselves', they are read in the light of theory. - [Facts] The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning. - [Assumptions] The telephone is the greatest single enemy of scholarship; for what our intellectual forebears used to inscribe in ink now goes once over a wire into permanent oblivion. - [Telephone] When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown. - [Judgment] A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right. - Ever Since Darwin [Right]
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