This amused me

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This is silly, and I don't know if it was intentional, but I found it amusing nonetheless.

I am reading The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan.

Each chapter is preceded by a quote, from philosophy, literature, etc.

The chapter I started last night is entitled "The Fine Art of Baloney Detection"...and the opening quote is by Francis Bacon.

[Aethian]

And the quote is...?

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Entirely unrelated to pork products

The human understanding is no dry light, but
receives infusion from the will and affections;
whence proceed sciences which may be called
"sciences as one would." For what a man had
rather were true he more readily believes.
Therefore he rejects difficult things from
impatience of research; sober things, because
they narrow hope; the deeper things of nature,
from superstition; the light of experience, from
arrogance and pride; things not commonly
believed, out of deference to the opinion of the
vulgar. Numberless in short are the ways, and
sometimes imperceptible, in which the
affections color and infect the understanding.

-- Francis Bacon, Novum Organum (1620)