"The scientific method of the working hypothesis, as the only gateway to the erection of comprehnsive theories, laws, and principles, to the establishment of further knowledge, and to the securing of more successful practice and better control of nature, can and should be utilized in other spheres---in morals, in politics, in social affairs, in religion.
"In other words, any new ideology must not be dogmatic, and must refrain from any claim to absoluteness or completeness; it must utilize scientific method, so as to be expansive, flexible and unitive instead of rigid and eventually restrictive and divisive. Tolerance, respect for cultural and individual variety, acceptance of difference---these are some of the counterparts to the scientific method in other fields. However, they themselves should not be employed rigidly or in any absolute sense, but in the same sort of way that the principle of the working hypothesis is applied in the natural sciences"
Julian Huxley
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