It is so much easier to assume than to prove … less painful to be believe than to doubt, such a charm in the repose of prejudice, when no discordant voice jars upon…belief.
假设比实证要简单得多，相信也没有疑惑那样让人不快，人们喜欢固执于成见，因为那毫不费力，也不会有不和谐的音符来扰乱我们的坚信不疑。

——W. E. H. Lecky, A History of Rationalism
——威廉·爱德华·莱基，《理性的历史》