Here's another nice mess you've gotten me into*

Quotes of the Day included one from Oliver Cromwell today:

"I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken."

Well, I for one am certain that it's an exceedingly good idea, firstly to qualify our certainties with the caveat, 'based on what I/we currently know', and secondly to be prepared to revise our conclusions in the light of new information. In fact it's a principle I'm quite dogmatic about.

Cromwell included the quoted sentence in a letter he wrote to the...