Re: Gore Shocks Scientists With Creationism Statement

From: Ken Clements (Ken@InnovationOnDmnd.com)
Date: Sun Aug 29 1999 - 13:24:57 MDT


GBurch1@aol.com wrote:

> "It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by
> itself."
>
> "[E]rror of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."
>
> -- Thomas Jefferson

I can't help adding my favorite to this:

"Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who
believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong."

                -- Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia, 1782.



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