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Reason creates science; sentiments and creeds shape history

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a religion, hierarchically organized, things more than anything else will be done in the name of ''decency'.' The coarse fumes of tobacco and liquors, the consequent tainting of the breath and staining of white fingers and teeth, which is so offensive to many women, will be the first things attended to.

A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.

They basically ask their engineers to volunteer some probability figures, then they take the average. This is not science. This is voodoo,