Friendships Are Nice. So Is Competence.

No Man Is So Good As To Be Free From All Evil, Nor So Bad As To Be Worth Nothing.

Right Now, Scientists Are In Exactly The Same Position As Renaissance Painters, Commissioned To Make The Portrait The Patron Wants Done, And If They Are Smart, They'll Make Sure Their Work Subtly Flatters The Patron. Not Overtly. Subtly.

Do You Know What We Call Opinion In The Absence Of Evidence? We Call It Prejudice.

Whenever You Hear The Consensus Of Scientists Agrees On Something Or Other, Reach For Your Wallet, Because You're Being Had.

We Think We Know What We Are Doing. We Have Always Thought So. We Never Seem To Acknowledge That We Have Been Wrong In The Past, And So Might Be Wrong In The Future. Instead, Each Generation Writes Off Earlier Errors As The Result Of Bad Thinking By Less Able Minds - And Then Confidently Embarks On Fresh Errors Of Its Own.