“The main enemies of science are facts and commonsense.”

From 'The Cameron Delusion' (2010)

Iranian Minister of Intelligence Gholam Hossein Mohseni-Ejehei: We Pursue, Arrest, Reform, and Sometimes Execute Spies in Iran, MEMRI, August 28, 2007 http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/1564.htm,

Quoted in: Eubanas, Froilan. "Public health, a progressive science." Monthly Bulletin of the Philippine Health Service. 24 (1948): 1.
Context: The world was sick, and the ills from which it was suffering were mainly due to the perversion of man, his inability to live at peace with himself. The microbe was no longer the main enemy; science was sufficiently advanced to be able to cope with it admirably. If it were not for such barriers as superstition, ignorance, religious intolerance, misery and poverty.

"The Reverent Thomas' Dirty Little Planet", p. 141
Ever Since Darwin (1977)

Here is the sample of liberty no storms may shake. Here are the altars of freedom no factions shall destroy. It was American in conception, American in its building. It shall be American in the fulfillment. Factional once, we are all American now. And we mean to be all Americans to all the world.
1920s, The American Soldier (1920)

Source: Science and Hypothesis (1901), Ch. IX: Hypotheses in Physics, Tr. George Bruce Halsted (1913)
Context: The Scientist must set in order. Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.