Every Discovery Contains An Irrational Element Or

I Have Come To The Conclusion That Darwinism Is Not A Testable Scientific Theory, But A Metaphysical Research Programme.

A Theory That Explains Everything, Explains Nothing

True Ignorance Is Not The Absence Of Knowledge, But The Refusal To Acquire It.

Science Is Not A System Of Certain, Or -established, Statements; Nor Is It A System Which Steadily Advances Towards A State Of Finality... And Our Guesses Are Guided By The Unscientific, The Metaphysical (though Biologically Explicable) Faith In Laws, In Regularities Which We Can Uncover-discover. Like Bacon, We Might Describe Our Own Contemporary Science-'the Method Of Reasoning Which Men Now Ordinarily Apply To Nature'-as Consisting Of 'anticipations, Rash And Premature' And As 'prejudices'.

It Is Not His Possession Of Knowledge, Of Irrefutable Truth, That Makes The Man Of Science, But His Persistent And Recklessly Critical Quest For Truth.