“Even today few scientists and perhaps even fewer nonscientists realize that science is a method and nothing else.”

—  Carroll Quigley

Source: The Evolution of Civilizations (1961) (Second Edition 1979), Chapter 1, Scientific Method and the Social Sciences, p. 40

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