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Science Is Neither A Single Tradition, Nor The Best Tradition There Is, Except For People Who Have Become Accustomed To Its Presence, Its Benefits And Its Disadvantages. In A Democracy It Should Be Separated From The State Just As Churches Are Now Separated From The State.

The Validity Of Usefulness, Adequacy Of Popular Standards Can Be Tested Only By Research That Violates Them.

Unanimity Of Opinion May Be Fitting For A Church, For The Frightened Or Greedy Victims Of Some (ancient, Or Modern) Myth, Or For The Weak And Willing Followers Of Some Tyrant. Variety Of Opinion Is Necessary For Objective Knowledge. And A Method That Encourages Variety Is Also The Only Method That Is Comparable With A Humanitarian Outlook.

Not Only Are Facts And Theories In Constant Disharmony, They Are Never As Neatly Separated As Everyone Makes Them Out To Be.

If The World Is An Aggregate Of Relatively Independent Regions, Then Any Assumption Of Universal Laws Is False And A Demand For Universal Norms Tyrannical: Only Brute Force (or Seductive Deception) Can Then Bend The Different Moralities So That They Fit The Prescriptions Of A Single Ethical System. And Indeed, The Idea Of Universal Laws Of Nature And Society Arose In Connection With A Life-and-death Battle: The Battle That Gave Zeus The Power Over The Titans And All Other Gods And Thus Turned His Laws Into The Laws Of The Universe.