It Is Proper To The Role Of

A Pragmatist Is Concerned With Results, Not Reality.

It Is A Profound And Necessary Truth That The Deep Things In Science Are Not Found Because They Are Useful; They Are Found Because It Was Possible To Find Them.

There Must Be No Barriers To Freedom Of Inquiry... There Is No Place For Dogma In Science. The Scientist Is Free, And Must Be Free To Ask Any Question, To Doubt Any Assertion, To Seek For Any Evidence, To Correct Any Errors. Our Political Life Is Also Predicated On Openness. We Know That The Only Way To Avoid Error Is To Detect It And That The Only Way To Detect It Is To Be Free To Inquire. And We Know That As Long As Men Are Free To Ask What They Must, Free To Say What They Think, Free To Think What They Will, Freedom Can Never Be Lost, And Science Can Never Regress.

The Optimist Thinks This Is The Best Of All Possible Worlds. The Pessimist Fears It Is True.

It Is Proper To The Role Of The Scientist That He Not Merely Find New Truth And Communicate It To His Fellows, But That He Teach, That He Try To Bring The Most Honest And Intelligible Account Of New Knowledge To All Who Will Try To Learn.