gjm comments on Rationality quotes January 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gjm 01 January 2012 11:45:18AM 6 points [-]

The English mob preferred their calendar to disagree with the sun than to agree with the pope.

Attributed to Voltaire (referring of course to the Gregorian calendar reform) though evidence that Voltaire actually said or wrote any such thing seems scanty. Reversed stupidity is not intelligence.