Every generation lives with illusions.
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times.
The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.
The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.
Of all false assertions that ever went into the world under the banner of a great name and the mail armor of a well-turned phrase, Locke's comparison of the mind to a blank sheet of paper appears to me among the most untrue.
