"Men learn the elements of science from others;
and every learner hath a deference more or less to authority,
especially the younger learners,
few of that kind caring to dwell long upon principles,
but including rather to take them on trust:
And things early admitted by repetition become familiar:
And this familiarity at length passeth for evidence."
-- A Defence of Freethinking in Mathematics (1735)
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