Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts p…

H. L. Mencken
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Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact. ✨ 'Minority Report'. Collected in Notebooks (1956).
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