VML-10/18/01

[Guest guest]

For practical purposes, let us talk in the language of modern

science. But I must ask you to bear in mind that, as there is

religious superstition, so there also is a superstition of science.

There are priests who take up religious work as their speciality; so

also are there priests of physical law, scientists. As soon as a

great scientist's name, like Darwin or Huxley, is cited, we follow

blindly. It is the fashion of the day. Ninety-nine percent of what we

call scientific knowledge is mere theories. And many of them are no

better than the superstitions of ghosts with many heads and hands,

but with this difference that the latter differentiated man a a

little from stocks and stones. True science asks us to be cautious.