Originally shared by Event Horizon
"Ignorance of naturall causes disposeth a man to Credulity, so as to believe many times impossibilities: for such know nothing to the contrary, but that they may be true; being unable to detect the Impossibility. And Credulity, because men love to be hearkened unto in company, disposeth them to lying: so that Ignorance it selfe without Malice, is able to make a man bothe to believe lyes, and tell them; and sometimes also to invent them."
- Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651).
Thomas Hobbes, shredding ye olde fake news. It remains endlessly entertaining (and somewhat tragic) that people's motivations don't really ever change all that much.
Human beings being human.
Sister blog of Physicists of the Caribbean in which I babble about non-astronomy stuff, because everyone needs a hobby
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