It Is Often Assumed That Science Starts

A Free Society Is A Society In Which All Traditions Have Equal Rights And Equal Access To The Centers Of Power. A Tradition Receives These Rights Not Because The Importance The Cash Value, As It Were) It Has For Outsiders But Because It Gives Meaning To The Lives Of Those Who Participate In It.

Early Chinese Thinkers Had Taken Variety At Face Value. They Had Favored Diversification And Collected Anomalies Instead Of Trying To Explain Them Away.

Arguments Hardly Affect The Faithful- Their Beliefs Have An Entirely Different Foundation.

Events And Developments, Such As ... The Copernican Revolution, ... Occurred Only Because Some Thinkers Either Decided Not To Be Bound By Certain "obvious" Methodological Rules, Or Because They Unwittingly Broke Them.

The Separation Of State And Church Must Be Complemented By The Separation Of State And Science, That Most Recent, Most Aggressive, And Most Dogmatic Religious Institution.