Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings.
Whoever in debate quotes authority uses not intellect, but memory.
He who in reasoning cites authority is making use of his memory rather than of his intellect.
Many will think they may reasonably blame me by alleging that my proofs are opposed to the authority of certain men held in the highest reverence by their inexperienced judgments; not considering that my works are the issue of pure and simple experience.
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