Science Being Above Critique Quotes

“Van Helsing: I heard once of an American who so defined faith: 'That faculty, which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.'... He meant that we shall have an open mind, and not let a little bit of truth check the rush of a big truth, like a small rock does a railway truck. We get the small truth first. good! We keep him, and we value him; but all the same we must not let him think himself all the truth in the universe.

Dr. Seward: Then you want me not to let some previous conviction injure the receptivity of my mind with regard to some strange matter. Do I read your lesson aright?

Van Helsing: Ah, you are my favorite pupil still. It is worth to teach you. Now that you are willing to understand, you have taken the first step to understand.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“...It is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“...[E]ven yet I do not expect you to believe. It is so hard to accept at once any abstract truth, that we may doubt such to be possible when we have always believed the ‘no’ of it...”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula