You may think it’s a joke. But it’s pretty much the core idea of the Enlightenment (that everyone can think for themselves and don’t need priests to tell them w

You may think it’s a joke. But it’s pretty much the core idea of the Enlightenment (that everyone can think for themselves and don’t need priests to tell them what to think). The motto of the Royal Society is “Nullius in verba”, “take nobody’s word for it”.