"Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth."

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The purpose of scientific method is to select a single truth from among many hypothetical truths. That, more than anything else, is what science is all about. But historically science has done exactly the opposite. Through multiplication upon multiplication of facts, information, theories and hypotheses, it is science itself that is leading mankind from single absolute truths to multiple indeterminate, relative ones.

— Robert M. Pirsig