All We Can Do Is Search For

Science Is Perhaps The Only Human Activity In Which Errors Are Systematically Criticized And, In Time, Corrected.

Good Tests Kill Flawed Theories; We Remain Alive To Guess Again.

Why Do I Think That We, The Intellectuals, Are Able To Help? Simply Because We, The Intellectuals, Have Done The Most Terrible Harm For Thousands Of Years. Mass Murder In The Name Of An Idea, A Doctrine, A Theory, A Religion - That Is All "our" Doing, "our" Invention: The Invention Of The Intellectuals. If Only We Would Stop Setting Man Against Man - Often With The Best Intentions - Much Would Be Gained. Nobody Can Say That It Is Impossible For Us To Stop Doing This.

The Belief In A Political Utopia Is Especially Dangerous. This Is Possibly Connected With The Fact That The Search For A Better World, Like The Investigation Of Our Environment, Is (if I Am Correct) One Of The Oldest And Most Important Of All The Instincts.

Now This Principle Of Induction Cannot Be A Purely Logical Truth Like A Tautology Or An Analytic Statement. . . .