If this "critical openminded attitude" ... is wanted, the question at once arises, Is it science that should be studied in order to achieve it? Why n….

Our advanced and fashionable thinkers are, naturally, out on a wide swing of the pendulum, away from the previous swing of the pendulum.... They seem….

It is true that physics gives a wonderful training in precise, logical thinking-about physics. It really does depend upon accurate reproducible exper….

The really important questions in human life are hardly touched upon by psychologists. Do liars come to believe their own lies? Is pleasure the same ….

There are science teachers who actually claim that they teach "a healthy skepticism." They do not. They teach a profound gullibility, and their dupes….

Psychologists pay lip service to the scientific method, and use it whenever it is convenient; but when it isn't they make wild leaps of their uncontr….

Mr. Hillaire Belloc has pointed out that science has changed greatly, and for the worse, since it became popular. Some hundred years ago, or more, on….

Psychologists, like other scientists, pride themselves on being extremely modern, and therefore much better than any group of people that ever were b….

But although in theory physicists realize that their conclusions are ... not certainly true, this ... does not really sink into their consciousness. ….