ABSTRACT
A good way to start to examine the nature of the scientific process may be to ask what it is that is special about it. For progress to be sustained generation after generation, scientists must often be able to start where their predecessors left off. The potentiality for cumulation can be partly explained by characteristics inherent in the subject-matter. The myth of infallibility is important because it is prevalent, and it is potentially dangerous because it can lead to unwarranted dogmatism not only in but also about science. Nature-story, bare and unadorned, makes dull and uninspiring teaching material. In the absence of any panacea, it is left to the imagination and judgment of teachers to decide in what ways to invest facts with concreteness. Creativity is obviously an absorbing subject, and it is a pity that there is so little that can be said about it that is both firmly based and illuminating.
