This open-minded scientist/professor defines a genius as "a crank who happens to be right" and a crank as "a genius who happens to be wrong" and anomalies as worthy of investigation as so many in the past have led to scientific
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Audio on Demand - New Science

11/9/2001

A lively argument for pseudoscience" not as the opposite of science, but as something that develops parallel to it and should not be dismissed out of hand. Bauer (professor emeritus, chemistry, Virginia Tech) declares that on examination pseudoscience, or "anomalistics," turns out to be less an intellectual category than an epithet, and that "exploring
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Books - New Science

The modern world has become fatally addicted to science. In the beginning, the natural sciences were simply humankind's storehouse of knowledge about the mechanics of the world. But increasingly, since the late 19th century, science has become a universal role model for how to acquire knowledge. Science-based metaphors pervade our words and thoughts.
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Books - New Science