“Science is not like religion; it’s not about finding true doctrines. It’s about demolishing wrong ones. Ideas are two a penny; it’s the efficient destruction of error that leads us to truth. And we really need such a method. The truths at the heart of Newtonian mechanics, evolution, electromagnetism, quantum mechanics and bioinformatics are often so counterintuitive and disturbing that we only accept them when absolutely every other possibility has been shot down in flames. To understand the mechanism, you first have to burn away the myth.”
(Ross Anderson, Cambridge – the Unauthorised History)
