The scientific tradition is distinguished from the pre-scientific tradition by having two layers. Like the latter, it passes on its theories; but it also passes on a critical attitude towards them.

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.

All life is problem solving

Plato felt that a complete reconstruction of society's political program was needed.

[To] interpret Parmenides as a Kant before Kant ... this is exactly what we must do.

No number of sightings of white swans can prove the theory that all swans are white. The sighting of just one black one may disprove it.

I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'.