“This ability to incorporate the past gives the sharpest diagnostic tool, if one asks whether a body of knowledge is a science or not. Do present practitioners have to go back to an original work of the past? Or has it been incorporated? ... Science is cumulative, and embodies its past.” IfsKnowsGivingBodyPastScienceAsksAbilityKnowledgeToolsAccountsOriginalsCumulative Author:C.P. Snow
“I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ... Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men.” KnowsMenGivingScienceLyingKnowledgeKnow HowDrugDoctorsShopsReliefHelpfulPhysiciansConsolationConsole Author:Anatole France
“As soon as a true thought has entered our mind, it gives a light which makes us see a crowd of other objects which we have never perceived before.” GivingMindLightKnowledgeObjectsPerceptionCrowds Author:François-René de Chateaubriand