It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.