For some folks, having to click on a link is a trivial inconvenience, so here’s the relevant part:
As a colleague of the writer once remarked, ‘Philosophers are free to do whatever they please, because they don’t have to do anything right.’ But a responsible scientist does not have that freedom; he will not assert the truth of a general principle, and urge others to adopt it, merely on the strength of his own intuition.
For some folks, having to click on a link is a trivial inconvenience, so here’s the relevant part:
Thanks. Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Such is my laziness, that I didn’t pay attention to Jaynes’ elaboration to the quote, which is pretty good too.