The main problem with many nonscientific world models is the vigor with which they insist upon their rightness. Once a world model claims to be completely right, it is no longer open to any changes.... Closed systems can be comforting, but they are limited.... It's not the best we can do. Neither is extreme "open-mindednesss" that slides into "empty headedness"—the ideal that we can never really know anything.

Longing for the Harmonies: Themes and Variations from Modern Physics (1987)