"The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to be utterly abolished."

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[P]rescientific people... could never guess the nature of physical reality beyond the tiny sphere attainable by unaided common sense. Nothing else ever worked, no exercise from myth, revelation, art, trance, or any other conceivable means; and notwithstanding the emotional satisfaction it gives, mysticism, the strongest prescientific probe in the unknown, has yielded zero.

— E. O. Wilson