Quotation of the Day…

by Don Boudreaux on April 18, 2020

in Philosophy of Freedom, Science

is from a letter that Albert Einstein wrote in 1901 to Jost Winteler:

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

DBx: Yes – and, for very much the same reason, unthinking respect for authority also is the greatest friend of tyranny.

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Sixty-five years ago today in New Jersey Einstein died.

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