To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

Jules Henri Poincare
Jules Henri Poincaré (1854-1912) French physicist, mathematician, philosopher
Science and Hypothesis [La Science et l’Hypothèse], Introduction (1902)

See also Korzybski.

 
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