Just Like A Turtle, We Only Make

Science Is A Dynamic Undertaking Directed To Lowering The Degree Of The Empiricism Involved In Solving Problems; Or, If You Prefer, Science Is A Process Of Fabricating A Web Of Interconnected Concepts And Conceptual Schemes Arising From Experiments And Observations And Fruitful Of Further Experiments And Observations.

Each Honest Calling, Each Walk Of Life, Has Its Own Elite, Its Own Aristocracy Based On Excellence Of Performance. . . . There Will Always Be The False Snobbery Which Tries To Place One Vocation Above Another. You Will Become A Member Of The Aristocracy In The American Sense Only If Your Accomplishments And Integrity Earn This Appellation.

Education Is What Is Left After All That Has Been Learnt Is Forgotten.

Just Like A Turtle, We Only Make Progress If We Stick Our Neck Out.

Therefore, A Grotesque Account Of A Period Some Thousands Of Years Ago Is Taken Seriously Though It Be Built By Piling Special Assumptions On Special Assumptions, Ad Hoc Hypothesis [invented For A Purpose] On Ad Hoc Hypothesis, And Tearing Apart The Fabric Of Science Whenever It Appears Convenient. The Result Is A Fantasia Which Is Neither History Nor Science.