TFTD: The less evidence there is, the more authoritarian sounding the statement of it will be. Oppressive Authority hates questions.

November 2, 2018 § Leave a comment

“It was very authoritarian the way people said it was unbounded. But when you looked into it, the evidence seemed very slim,” said Andrew Granville, a mathematician at the University of Montreal and University College London.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/without-a-proof-mathematicians-wonder-how-much-evidence-is-enough-20181031/

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