We believe that the world is knowable: that there are simple rules governing the behavior of matter and the evolution of the universe. We affirm that there are eternal, objective, extra-historical, socially-neutral, external and universal truths. The assemblage of these truths is what we call Science, and the proof of our assertion lies in the pudding of its success.

Sheldon Glashow as transcribed by Ronald N. Giere, Scientific Perspectivism