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Bertrand Russell published a slightly different version in his 1933 essay "The Triumph of Stupidity".

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

He also expressed a similar idea in another popular variation:

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Bertrand Russell published a slightly different version in his 1933 essay "The Triumph of Stupidity". > The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. He also expressed a similar idea in another popular variation: > The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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Was gonna say, thought that was Bertrand Russell

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Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

W.B.Yeats - The Second Coming | The Poetry Foundation https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-coming

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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed

-Bertrand Russell

Also, if you haven't read the preface to his play, The Doctor's Dilemma, you'll never really understand what happened during the pandemic.

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I am not a real fan of Elon, but he does fall into the combination of this. Others did as well.....and well, they revolutionized things.