Originally Posted by
vkp78
ZMM (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance), p. 101 of his Bantam paperback, where Pirsig tells us:
"The purpose of scientific method is to select a single truth from among many hypothetical truths. That, more than anything else, is what science is all about. But historically science has done exactly the opposite. Through multiplication upon multiplication of facts, information, theories and hypotheses, it is science itself that is leading mankind from single absolute truths to multiple, indeterminate, relative ones."