A Nobel prize winner's view on fools

Pompous fools drive me up the wall. Ordinary fools are all right; you can talk to them, and try to help them out. But pompous fools–guys who are fools and are covering it all over and impressing people as to how wonderful they are with all this hocus pocus–THAT, I CANNOT STAND! An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!

- Richard Feynman,
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character), p. 133

He wasn't a Christian, but it seems as though he knew something about the distinction in Proverbs 26:4-5

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Catholic mass:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hocus_Pocus_(magic)

(Saryn and I are lately reading of word/phrase origins)