We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.

To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.

We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.

Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion from other disciplines would compete unfairly for limited financial resources and thus diminish their own opportunity for research.

Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe. Every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.

We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.

It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.