Just Like A Turtle, We Only Make

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

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.

I Venture To Define Science As A Series Of Interconnected Concepts And Conceptual Schemes Arising From Experiment And Observation And Fruitful Of Further Experiments And Observations. The Test Of A Scientific Theory Is, I Suggest, Its Fruitfulness.

The Dignity Of Man Is Vindicated As Much By The Thinker And Poet As By The Statesman And Soldier.

There Is Only One Proved Method Of Assisting The Advancement Of Pure Science-that Of Picking Men Of Genius, Backing Them Heavily, And Leaving Them To Direct Themselves.