“If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.”
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Much of today's public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may forever be overlooking the whole by an endless, obsessive preoccupation with the parts.
The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.
The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.
The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves most things, in fact, are better in the morning.
