Date: 1644, 1647
False judgments stick in the memory and are difficult to erase
preview | full record— Descartes, René (1596-1650)
Date: 1785
"Rules for rendering the Mind a tabula rasa, on which the hand of Nature is to write by observation and experiments: and for expelling the prejudices, which have retarded the progress of the useful Sciences and Arts."
preview | full record— Bruce, John (1745-1826)