If you would be a real seaker of truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

Rene Descartes

Never let your sence of morals prevent you from doing the right thing.

Isaac Asimov

Do not condem the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

Dandemis

The eye only sees what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Robertson Davies

What is success

To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people and affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others;
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Definition of physic

Old definition : "Any system of knowledge that is concerned with the physical world and its phenomena and that entails unbiased observations and systematic experimentation. In general, a science involves a pursuit of knowledge covering general truths or the operations of fundamental laws."

Response of the modern Physicist : The essence of science is that it's how we learn about Nature that is its promise and purpose. The rest is methodology. The methodology is important, of course; but one mustn't lose sight of the fact that Nature is what it's all about. Some core features of the methodology are missing from your description above, such as the fact that those 'general truths' are never really proven true, but rather shown to be more plausible than other alternatives; that they are theories arrived at by a process of proposing falsifiable hypotheses and then testing those hypotheses; that such hypotheses gain acceptance to the extent that they both resist falsification and also predict new and surpising features of nature that are then verified by experiment; that a big part of all this is the process of creating abstract and/or approximate models, which may just be useful mental devices, for complex physical systems that cannot be analyzed in their entirety. And etc.

Science and religion: response to an invitation

Thank you for the kind invitation. I take it as an honor to be given the chance to be slaughtered like a sacrificial lamb, in the name of science, by such a distinguished audience.

Theodore Bullock