edited by Floyd E. Bloom, MD, M. Flint Beal, MD, and David J. Kupfer, MD, foreword by William Safire, 733 pp (hardcover), with illus, $45, ISBN 0-7432-0397-6, New York, NY, Free Press, 2003.
Science is not the affirmation of a set of beliefs but a process of inquiry aimed at building a testing body of knowledge constantly open to rejection or confirmation. In science, knowledge is fluid and certainly fleeting. That is at the heart of its limitation. It is also its greatest strength. —Michael Shermer