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• Science does not promise absolute truth, nor does it consider that such a thing necessarily exists.
  Science does not even promise that everything in the Universe is amenable to the scientific process....
• The only way to have real success in science, the field I'm familiar with, is to describe the evidence very carefully without regard to the way you feel it should be.
  If you have a theory, you must try to explain what's good and what's bad about it equally....
• Astrology is] 100 percent hokum, Ted. As a matter of fact, the first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, written in 1771 -- 1771!
  aid that this belief system is a subject long ago ridiculed and reviled....
• I suppose that everyone is familiar in outline with the theory of the origin of species which Darwin promulgated.
  Through the last fifty years this theme of the natural selection of favored races has been developed and expounded in writings innumerable....
• It is a mistake to believe that a science consists in nothing but conclusively proved propositions, and it is unjust to demand that it should.
  It is a demand only from those who feel a craving for authority in some form and a need to replace the religious catechism by something else, even it it be a scientific one....
• In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argume
  my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again....
• In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argume
  my position is mistaken,' and then they actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again....
• Internet n. The mother of all networks. First incarnated beginning in 1969 as the ARPANET, a U.
  S. Department of Defense research testbed. Though it has been widely believed that the goal was to develop a network architecture for military command-and-control that could survive disruptions up to and including nuclear war, this is a myth...