Science

"Science is a wonderful thing... no other school of thought has had such a profound effect on our cilivization. It has brought us vast amounts of knowledge and allowed us to gain control over many aspects of our daily lives.

"However, science is a tool and only a tool. People tend to forget that. Science is only moderately more objective than other conceptions of the natural world. There are other forms of knowledge and other methods of obtaining it. Science does not now hold all the answers to the universe and the facts upon which much knowledge is based may or may not hold true tomorrow. In it's basic stucture, science, acknowledges this - indeed it's entire premise of hypothesis and experimentation is a reflection of that. But we often forget that and arrogantly presume to be more knowledgeable of the world than we are.

"Keeping this in mind, remember that a great deal more is possible than we are often willing to accept. There are whole realms of experience that are not efficiently dealt with by the scientific method. We must beware not to close ourselves to those realms simply because we have not chosen a tool appropriate to the task.

"Science has a place, as do other no less rigourous systems. The wise have more than one tool in their repetoire."