that is what empiricism isn't that leads me to a second friendly amendment and timothy ferris's book. defines science more broadly. what we are talking about is not just the hard sciences though that is obviously the core of the proposition. it is the entire system of truth seeking by a community of seekers who accept not just practically but morally the necessity of subjecting their claims to criticism and who renounce any special personal authority, whether it comes from themselves, or from god or whoever over the outcome. that includes of course not only physics and mathematics, it includes the soft sciences, the humanities all of which are suspected to peer review for code also includes indeed what i do for living, which is journalism. we see a lot of stuff but we are expected to put it out there and check. one of the great empiricists is david broder the dean of washington journalist who has said if your mother says she loves you, check it. that is the ethic of journalism and is fundamentally the same of the epic of science. of course you don't get the crisp results in journalism

we sell short our core ideas and values, reason and empiricism the belief in inherent dignity of the human individual can forget the amount of bloodshed over centuries on behalf of these ideas but have allowed us to live our political lives by which i mean man at his most fully human living among other men, free of violence. our strength and have no other source than these ideas, these values. now i will turn the floor over to my co-panelist, two men due to my mind represent these values, american values and our foreign policy as well as anyone. [applause] >> first, i want to echo what ken weinstein said. i've recently finished reading this book and it is a really interesting book, and i want to urge you to buy it. this is the important thing, can't did not say read it, he said by it. whether you read it is up to you, but i. [laughter] by many. it is a pleasure to be here with ken and lee and jeff feltman who i think i came to know mostly as an ambassador in lebanon where he think he provided a model of what good an and american ambassador can do if he understands how to use the reso