“Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.”
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) English biologist and comparative anatomist
1870s, On the Hypothesis that Animals are Automata, and Its History (1874)
“A fool with the mind of a detective is an intelligent fool, a logical fool, the worst kind, because men's logic, far from compensating for their foolishness, only duplicates it, triplicates it, makes it dangerous.”
Un imbécil detectivesco es un imbécil listo, un imbécil lógico, los peores, porque la lógica de los hombres, en vez de compensar su imbecilidad, la duplica y la triplica y la hace ofensiva.
Source: Todas las Almas [All Souls] (1989), p. 30
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