"It’s frustrating to have to yield one’s Opinion to someone else; the ancient, surging feeling “I have a right to my own opinion!” resents that necessity violently. O.K., friend, your opinion may, indeed, be just as good as mine . . . but is it as good as the Universe’s? The cultural group was able to apply pressure that forced Galileo to retract his stated opinion, and that proved his opinion wasn’t as good as theirs, didn’t it? Winning the argument is not equivalent to proving yourself the better and righter man. You may, in the more general terms of the Universal Laws, simply be the more bigoted and stupid man."
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A Word for It (editorial) in Astounding, November 1955, p. 5
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John W. Campbell
John Wood Campbell, Jr. (8 June 1910 – 11 July 1971) was an American science fiction editor and writer, known for his challenges to writers.
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