That a society controls to a greater or lesser extent the behavior of its members is a universal but the methods the particulars of that control vary from one culture to another.

I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.

For many centuries suicides were treated like criminals by the society. That is part of the terrible legacy that has come down into society's method of handling suicide recovery. Now we have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries.

Society questions the police and their methods and the police say Do you want the criminals off the street or not?

But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition and that is science.

How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which at the same time assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.

That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology taking advantage of better tools methods and organization.

But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods.

We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists and we don't purport that what we do is real science but we're demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.

Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.