Quote #20

'Everywhere is the tabooed, or the disregarded. The monks of science dwell in smuggeries that are walled away from event-jungles. Or some of them do. Nowadays a good many of them are going native.'

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  7. 'My own notion is that it is very unsportsmanlike to ever mention fraud. Accept anything. Then explain it your way.'
  8. 'I cannot accept that the products of the mind are subject-matter for belief.'

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