Science is merely an extremely powerful method of winnowing what's true from what feels good.
What counts is not what sounds plausible, not what we would like to believe, not what one or two witnesses claim, but only what is supported by hard evidence rigorously and skeptically examined. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Valid criticism does you a favor.
The sacred truth of science is that there are no sacred truths.
This oak tree and me, we're made of the same stuff.
Frederick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.