[niccaluim]

"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance—that principle is contempt prior to investigation." - William Paley

[huxley]

This is the same William Paley (1743–1805) who proposed the watchmaker analogy arguing that complexity in nature was teleological evidence of a creator or intelligent designer.

[zafka]

I have always loved that quote, now I find I have been mis-attributing it for close to 30 years... For quite some time it had been attributed to Herbert Spencer