• "If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so." - James Lovelock Tweet
• "It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes." - Alva Myrdal Tweet
• "Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in." - Stephen Hawking Tweet
• "1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me, most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too." - Leon Askin Tweet
• "Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it." - Stephen Leacock Tweet
• "Very few recognize science as the high adventure it really is, the wildest of all explorations ever taken by human beings, the chance to glimpse things never seen before, the shrewdest maneuver for discovering how the world works." - Lewis Thomas Tweet
• "But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction." - Joseph Rotblat Tweet
• "The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality." - Shimon Peres Tweet
• "I didn't understand how you could be an actor if you didn't also study philosophy and study political science, astronomy. And also just go out and live life and have experiences." - Brit Marling Tweet
• "Science goes from question to question big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited." - George Wald Tweet