...when you put it that way, science sounds a lot like law.
[Ponders all of this. At that, he kind of feels sorry for Sentience; having to do what its programming says, the possibility of giving false information without knowing it... made all the worse by the fact that it's, well, sentient and aware that it's only programmed to act certain ways. That has to suck.]
I guess it wouldn't. We could always ask its programmers if they show up, though. It told me it was putting them on trial.