"Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion." - Michael ShermerTweet
"I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science." - Paul NurseTweet
"Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible." - Ray BradburyTweet
"It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is." - Elizabeth MoonTweet
"Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century." - Freeman DysonTweet
"He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion." - Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTweet
"I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance." - Richard DawkinsTweet
"This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it." - Thomas CarlyleTweet
"There was no 'before' the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time." - John D. BarrowTweet
"Touch a scientist and you touch a child." - Ray BradburyTweet