“Prejudice supports thrones, ignorance altars.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916) Austrian writer
Vorurteil stützt die Throne, Unwissenheit die Altäre.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 65.
“I won’t put my ignorance on an altar and call it God.”
— Robert Charles Wilson, book Darwinia
Source: Darwinia (1998), Chapter 15 (p. 136)
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