Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth. - Gustav Flaubert Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution. - John William Fletcher To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture. - Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels Chance. The pseudonym of God when He did not want to sign.