• "Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science." - Blaise Pascal Tweet
• "The general public has long been divided into two parts those who think science can do anything, and those who are afraid it will." - Dixie Lee Ray Tweet
• "Traditionally, scientists have treated the laws of physics as simply 'given,' elegant mathematical relationships that were somehow imprinted on the universe at its birth, and fixed thereafter. Inquiry into the origin and nature of the laws was not regarded as a proper part of science." - Paul Davies Tweet
• "Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself." - Woodrow Wilson Tweet
• "The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science." - Erich Fromm Tweet
• "People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science." - John Polkinghorne Tweet
• "Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally." - Ulrich Beck Tweet
• "Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products." - James Dyson Tweet
• "Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read in your lifetime. If you're going to read The Lord of the Rings, which everyone should, then you have to read Dune, too." - Kevin J. Anderson Tweet
• "Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature." - Paul Valery Tweet