To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.

I believe in truths, but I don't believe in the Truth. Furthermore, I think that vision of an underlying Truth, with as capital T, that scientists are privy to, has been a very counterproductive vision. It has served scientists very well, but what it has done, above all, is encloses the world of science and immunize it from criticism.

To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.