There Is No History, Only Histories.

It Is The Rule Which Says That The Other Rules Of Scientific Procedure Must Be Designed In Such A Way That They Do Not Protect Any Statement In Science Against Falsification.

We Never Know What We Are Talking About.

If We Are Uncritical We Shall Always Find What We Want: We Shall Look For, And Find, Confirmations, And We Shall Look Away From, And Not See, Whatever Might Be Dangerous To Our Pet Theories. In This Way It Is Only Too Easy To Obtain What Appears To Be Overwhelming Evidence In Favor Of A Theory Which, If Approached Critically, Would Have Been Refuted.

Man, Some Modern Philosophers Tell Us, Is Alienated From His World: He Is A Stranger And Afraid In A World He Never Made. Perhaps He Is; Yet So Are Animals, And Even Plants. They Too Were Born, Long Ago, Into A Physico-chemical World, A World They Never Made.

There Is No History, Only Histories.