Heretical truths: more great wisdom from the X-Files
by Steve Douglas
February 15th, 2012 | 0 Comments
This time from the pen of Howard Gordon:
Scully: “So you’re basing this theory on a folk tale.”
Mulder: “It’s just another way of describing the same truths, right? I mean, all new truths begin as heresies and end as superstitions.* We fear the unknown so we reduce it to the terms most familiar to us. Whether that’s a folk tale, or a disease or a conspiracy.”
Scully: “Mulder, even if you’re right, I mean especially if you’re right, why would he leave his own country to come here?”
Mulder: “Free cable.”
from “Teliko”, episode 4×04
* Paraphrasing T. H. Huxley: “History warns us, however, that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.”
February 15th, 2012
Tags: evolution, Thomas Henry Huxley, X-Files
