From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2007-01-28:
"The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search after truth. So it does more harm than good." -- Francis Bacon, First Book of Aphorisms XII.
(submitted to the mailing list by Mike Krawchuk)
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