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"I will be succinct, eschewing vainglorious hyperbole."
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Michael SheaI have in mind the notion that is so fashionable nowadays, namely that — Michael Shea
"I have in mind the notion that is so fashionable nowadays, namely that we live in a Dark Age where puny Science quails before many a dim Unknown on every hand. Surely this sort of facile pessimism dampens the energy of inquiry even as it leads to obscurantism—toward a despair of certainty which encourages us to embrace truths, half-truths, and the most extravagant falsehoods with a promiscuous lack of discrimination."
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"And I make bold to say that I am not the only one of my countrymen who could profit from taking this admonition to heart."
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"It is a bitter thing that each of us must finally be blown out like a candle, and have the unique ardor of his individual flame choked off, and sucked utterly away like smoke in the dark. Do we ever accept this in our hearts, any of us? The waste of knowledge! It never ceases to be...infuriating."
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