To doubt everything and to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; each saves us from thinking.
Henri Poincaré
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- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Science and Hypothesis, Introduction; translated by George Bruce Halsted, The Foundations of Science (1913), p. 27; Complete public-domain sentence in Halsted’s translation. Read surrounding introduction: rejects both uncritical certainty and superficial skepticism in favor of examining hypotheses.
- Science and Hypothesis, Introduction; translated by George Bruce Halsted, The Foundations of Science (1913), p. 27
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