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Quote by: Real Thing ... "true believers" ... |
Thing, once you've been here for a while, you'll notice that it's the people like tivodan (above) who are totally faith-based: true
disbelievers as it were.
As Sidney Smith, 19th-century canon of St Paul's Cathedral, wrote to Lord John Russell:
You say you are not convinced by my pamphlet. I am afraid that I am a very arrogant person, but I do assure you that in the fondest moments of self-conceit, the idea of convincing a Russell that he was wrong never came across my mind. Euclid would have had a bad chance with you if you had happened to have formed an opinion that the interior angles of a triangle were not equal to two right angles. The more poor Euclid demonstrated, the more you would not have been convinced.