Quotable Quotes: Imre Lakatos
by Miki Saxon
There is only one quote today; not because Imre Lakatos didn’t say anything else worth quoting, he did, but because I want this one to stick in your head.
The year is more than half over and we are swiftly moving into election mania times and 2012 will be far worse.
“Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.”
So I offer this bit of what I consider wisdom, especially for all those who vote an ideological ballot, whether it’s the Right, the Left or somewhere else.
We aren’t living in an era in which we can afford blind commitment to anything, so dust off your skepticism, put away your knee-jerk reactions and put on your thinking cap—the country needs you.
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