“A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.”
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.
