There are no critical tests to conf irm or falsify them. There are no natural laws from which they are derived. Unlike science, social research never discovers anything. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out and that the growing generation is familiarized with the idea from the beginning. As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
Rutherford Never express yourself more clearly than you think. In the pure and physical sciences each generation inherits the consequences made by its predecessors, but in the moral sciences, particularly the arts of administration, the ground seems never to be incontestably won. The Nature of the Universe Duct tape is like the Force. There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.