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The scientific method has been sufficiently used and sufficiently popularized to bring about a radical change in the outlook of educated men. Revelations are no longer blindly accepted. The spirit of enquiry is awake, and these revelations can no longer be saved by placing them in water-tight compartments, by setting up barricades beyond which the questing spirit of science is not allowed to proceed. Critical methods of examination must be everywhere applied. That which seeks to escape by hoisting a sacrosanct flag, is dishonest to itself and to others.

-- Notebooks Category 7: The Intellect > Chapter 6 : Science > # 9