There are four chief obstacles to grasping
truth, which hinder every man, however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to
win a clear title to knowledge: namely, submission to faulty and unworthy
authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and concealment of our own
ignorance accompanied by ostentatious display of our knowledge. (Roger Bacon, 1266)
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