This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.

We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit either in science or in practical life.

The method of political science is the interpretation of life its instrument is insight a nice understanding of subtle unformulated conditions.

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods and that is the sincere desire to find out the truth whatever it may be.

To the indefinite uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement a sort of intellectual hash which has neither taste nor character.

Terrorism can never be accepted. We must fight it together with methods that do not compromise our respect for the rule of law and human rights or are used as an excuse for others to do so.

I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because in a way both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed but their motivation is the same the wellspring is the same in both cases.

I was raised Catholic but my father's people were Methodist so we went to both churches.