First-world Science Is One Science Among Many;

Teachers' Using Grades And The Fear Of Failure Mould The Brains Of The Young Until They Have Lost Every Ounce Of Imagination They Might Once Have Possessed.

There Is No "scientific Worldview" Just As There Is No Uniform Enterprise "science" - Except In The Minds Of Metaphysicians, School Masters, And Scientists Blinded By The Achievements Of Their Own Particular Niche... There Is No Objective Principle That Could Direct Us Away From The Supermarket "religion" Or The Supermarket "art" Toward The More Modern, And Much More Expensive Supermarket "science." Besides, The Search For Such Guidance Would Be In Conflict With The Idea Of Individual Responsibility Which Allegedly Is An Important Ingredient Of A "rational" Or Scientific Age.

Mathematical Reasoning Is Not Only Exact; It Has Its Own Criteria Of Reality.

Knowledge Is Not A Series Of Self-consistent Theories That Converges Toward An Ideal View; It Is Rather An Ever Increasing Ocean Of Mutually Incompatible (and Perhaps Even Incommensurable) Alternatives, Each Single Theory, Each Fairy Tale, Each Myth That Is Part Of The Collection Forcing The Others Into Greater Articulation And All Of Them Contributing, Via This Process Of Competition, To The Development Of Our Consciousness.

Arguments Hardly Affect The Faithful- Their Beliefs Have An Entirely Different Foundation.