If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation.
In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.
It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.
Nature's imagination is always richer than ours.
Religious creationists and scientific materialists are equally dogmatic and insensitive. By their arrogance they bring both science and religion into disrepute.
Science has as many competing styles as painting or poetry.
Science is not a monolithic body of doctrine. Science is a culture, constantly growing and changing.
The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible.
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
To talk about the end of science is just as foolish as to talk about the end of religion. Science and religion are both still close to their beginnings, with no ends in sight.
We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.