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Science Is Not A System Of Certain, Or -established, Statements; Nor Is It A System Which Steadily Advances Towards A State Of Finality... And Our Guesses Are Guided By The Unscientific, The Metaphysical (though Biologically Explicable) Faith In Laws, In Regularities Which We Can Uncover-discover. Like Bacon, We Might Describe Our Own Contemporary Science-'the Method Of Reasoning Which Men Now Ordinarily Apply To Nature'-as Consisting Of 'anticipations, Rash And Premature' And As 'prejudices'.

Every Discovery Contains An Irrational Element Or A Creative Intuition.

No Matter How Many Instances Of White Swans We May Have Observed, This Does Not Justify The Conclusion That All Swans Are White.

We Do Not Know. We Can Only Guess.

I Personally Call The Type Of Government Which Can Be Removed Without Violence 'democracy,' And The Other, 'tyranny.'.