The History Of Anesthesia And The Superiority Of Science

"Science is not a destination, it is a process. Scientists do not make a discovery, declare victory, and go home. Each insight adds a pixel or two to a very large and complex picture. Each one suggests new questions and new avenues of exploration. But that ‘science doesn’t know everything’ is not the same as science not knowing anything. Science knows vastly more than any other system of physical knowledge has ever devised. In particular, medical science learns more in any given month than all of the various medical quackeries combined since the beginning of recorded history.

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