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.
pg. 144, middle of the page, last paragraph before 5.8 Bayesian Jurisprudence
http://books.google.com/books?id=tTN4HuUNXjgC&pg=PA144
Normally I’d cut and paste the quote, but google books won’t let me copy, and I’m too lazy.
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.