"If the ignorance of nature gave birth to"

“If the ignorance of nature gave birth to such a variety of gods, the knowledge of this nature is calculated to destroy them.”

- Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach,

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“People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don’t have any idea what causes epilepsy. But I believe that someday we will understand what causes epilepsy, and at that moment, we will cease to believe that it’s divine. And so it is with everything in the universe”

- Hippocrates

Tag: epilepsy, fallacy, god-of-the-gaps, ignorance, knowledge, superstition, understanding,

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