Scepticism
Propose to an Englishman any principle or any instrument, however admirable,
and you will see that the whole effort of the English mind is directed to
find a difficulty, a defect or an impossibility in it. If you speak to him
of a machine for peeling a potato he will pronounce it impossible. If you
peel a potato with it before his eyes, he will declare it useless, because
it will not slice a pineapple.
Charles Babbage
(1852)
Schlagwörter: scepticism Englishman difficulty defect impossibility
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