“Looking back at the worst times, it always seems that they were times in which there were people who believed with absolute faith and absolute dogmatism in something. And they were so serious in this matter that they insisted that the rest of the world agree with them. And then they would do things that were directly inconsistent with their own beliefs in order to maintain that what they said was true.”

— Richard Feynman, book The Meaning of It All

lecture II: "The Uncertainty of Values"
The Meaning of It All (1999)

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