"The freedom that the freethinker seeks is not the absolute freedom of anarchy; it is freedom within the intellectual law. He will not bow to the authority of others, and he will not bow to his desires, but he will submit to evidence. Prove to him that he is mistaken, and he will change his opinion; supply him with a new fact, and he will if necessary abandon even his most cherished theories. This is not to him a slavery. He needs, towards his fellow men, independence; towards his own prejudices, a difficult self-discipline; and towards the world that he wishes to understand, a clear untroubled outlook which he endeavors to see without distortion."
- Bertrand Russell
Posted by Divinity at March 20, 2003 06:14 PM