I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay's geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap.
Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.
While most of us know that we feel better after a good hearty laugh, science, in many cases, is yet to prove why.
The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.
Science is the systematic classification of experience.
Science is not addressed to poets.
Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction.
Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.