<bq href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/may/22/daniel-dennett-aristotle-flaming-idiot" source="The Guardian" caption="You can make Aristotle look like a flaming idiot" author="Daniel Dennett">The history of philosophy is the history of very tempting mistakes made by very smart people, and if you don’t learn that history you’ll make those mistakes again and again and again. One of the ignoble joys of my life is watching very smart scientists just reinvent all the second-rate philosophical ideas because they’re very tempting until you pause, take a deep breath and take them apart.</bq>