“To the Enlightenment thinkers the escape from ignorance and superstition showed how mistaken our conventional wisdom could be, and how the methods of science – skepticism, fallibilism, open debate, and empirical testing – are a paradigm of how to achieve reliable knowledge.”

“To the Enlightenment thinkers the escape from ignorance and superstition showed how mistaken our conventional wisdom could be, and how the methods of science – skepticism, fallibilism, open debate, and empirical testing – are a paradigm of how to achieve reliable knowledge.”

— Steven Pinker