Human All Too Human 635

On the whole, the procedures of science are at least as important a product of inquiry as any other outcome: for the scientific spirit rests apon an insight into these procedures and if these were lost all the other products of science together wouldn't suffice to prevent a restoration of superstition and folly. Anything that awakens distrust of the modesty and circumspection of science is an enemy of truth no matter how much it may believe itself to be truths suitor.