Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.

We cannot ultimately specify the grounds (either metaphysical or logical or empirical) upon which we hold that our knowledge is true. Being committed to such grounds, dwelling in them, we are projecting ourselves to what we believe to be true from or through these grounds. We cannot therefore see what they are. We cannot look at them because we are looking with them.

When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?

It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.