What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is the exact opposite.

Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Sceptical Essays, ch. 12 “Free Thought and Official Propaganda” (1928)

 
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