The really fascinating thing about research is the new science, but to get to it, you have to get past that first level.

Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves.

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.

Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.

Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.