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Aphorisms: Seeing and Believing

Seeing is believing, but anecdotal evidence is not real evidence.

It’s easy to see things that aren’t there. It’s easy to believe things that aren’t true. The scientific method is formalized distrust of personal experience and experiential evidence in general. If you believe everything you think you see, and if you accept as truth everything you believe, you are doubly wrong.

Obsolete saying

Seeing is believing.

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