Every Judgment In Science Stands On The

In The Moment Of Appreciation We Live Again The Moment When The Creator Saw And Held The Hidden Likeness.

Dissent Is The Mark Of Freedom, As Originality Is The Mark Of Independence Of Mind. … No One Can Be A Scientist … If He Does Not Have Independence Of Observation And Of Thought.

Progress Is The Exploration Of Our Own Error.

Progress Is The Exploration Of Our Own Error. Evolution Is A Consolidation Of What Have Always Begun As Errors. And Errors Are Of Two Kinds: Errors That Turn Out To Be True And Errors That Turn Out To Be False (which Are Most Of Them). But They Both Have The Same Character Of Being An Imaginative Speculation. I Say All This Because I Want Very Much To Talk About The Human Side Of Discovery And Progress, And It Seems To Me Terribly Important To Say This In An Age In Which Most Non-scientists Are Feeling A Kind Of Loss Of Nerve.

There Is No Absolute Knowledge. And Those Who Claim It, Whether They Are Scientists Or Dogmatists, Open The Door To Tragedy.