"We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization. The proper concepts are needed to formulate a goo…"

— Abraham Kaplan

"We discovered at one point that the brick wall of the pillar would hold up a sock pretty well. This led to sorting socks by putting them on …"

— James Nicoll

"There were the usual anxieties, starkly revealing the uneasiness that ordinary intellectuals had with science."

— Gregory Benford

"It is because I know all that science can bring to the world that I shall continue my efforts to ensure that it contributes to the happiness…"

— Frederic Joliot-Curie

"Ever since the Reformation, there's a sense in which the road to atheism was paved not with science, but with religious intentions."

— Jonathan Miller