“All that stock of arguments [the skeptics] produce to depreciate our faculties, and make mankind appear ignorant and low, are drawn principally from this head, to wit, that we are under an invincible blindness as to the true and real nature of things.” RealMankindProduceLowsArgumentWitIgnorantFacultyBlindnessInvincibleSkepticDepreciate Book:A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge ... Source: A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge ...
“Homunculi are bogeymen only if they duplicate entire the talents they are rung in to explain. If one can get a team or committee of relatively ignorant, narrow-minded, blind homunculi to produce the intelligent behaviour of the whole, this is progress.” IfsWholeProgressTeamTalentProduceIntelligentBlindIgnorantBehaviourCommitteesNarrow-mindedDuplicate Author:Daniel Dennett
“If science produces no better fruits than tyranny... I would rather wish our country to be ignorant, honest and estimable as our neighbouring savages are.” IfsCountryWishHonestProduceFruitTyrannyIgnorantOur CountrySavages Author:Thomas Jefferson