Historically speaking all - or very nearly all - scientific theories originate from myths.

The survival value of intelligence is that it allows us to extinct a bad idea, before the idea extincts us.

. . . it seems to me certain that more people are killed out of righteous stupidity than out of wickedness.

It is not possible to write clearly enough to avoid being misrepresented by people who are sufficiently determined to do so.

The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what we do not know, our knowledge of our ignorance

A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think) but a vice.

Some scientists find, or so it seems, that they get their best ideas when smoking; others by drinking coffee or whisky. Thus there is no reason why I should not admit that some may get their ideas by observing, or by repeating observations.