From 59e82281fe8f3b2d8cbbb7332eb9aa2bba4ae11d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rwatson Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 19:24:17 +0000 Subject: Add a useful snippet on limitations of inductive reasoning by Bertrand Russell. --- games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'games') diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes index de01d03..93a3747 100644 --- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes +++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes @@ -13269,6 +13269,12 @@ The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. -- Justice Louis D. Brandeis % +The hand that feeds the chicken every day finally wrings its neck instead, +thus proving that more sophisticated views about the uniformity of nature +would have been useful to the chicken. + + -- Bertrand Russell, "On Induction" +% The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. -- Albert Einstein % -- cgit v1.1