Sunday, April 19, 2009

Thought for the day ...

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous11:17 AM

    People are often beguiled by certain mental & linguistic shapes - so if a statement has a kind of symmetry that seems to establish then resolve tension, they feel it must be true.

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  2. or to simplify:

    To the man with a hammer everything looks like a nail.

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