"What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is its exact opposite."
— William Wordsworth

January 1, 1970

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This was not Wordsworth's viewpoint at all. The words are in fact those of Bertrand Russell in his Sceptical Essays (1928), p. 157