Related:

• Men often believe -- or pretend -- that the "Law" is something sacred, or at least a science -- an unfounded assumption very convenient to governments.
• I believe that part of what propels science is the thirst for wonder.
  It's a very powerful emotion. All children feel it....
• Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man.
  How's that again? I missed something. -- Robert A. Heinlei...
• It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
  -- Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid)...
• Wethern's Law: Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups.
• Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups. Wethern's Law