Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.

... scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning.

Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.

Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.

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.

Just like a turtle, we only make progress if we stick our neck out.

Even the development of the steam engine owed but little to the advancement of science.