This is not yet a scientific age.

Our poets do not write about it; our artists do not try to portray this remarkable thing. I don't know why. Is nobody inspired…

— Richard P. Feynman

The pre-scientific age, whatever its deficiencies, had at least offered its members the peace of mind that follows from knowing all man-made achievements to…

— Alain de Botton

We live in a scientific age, yet we assume that knowledge of science is the prerogative of only a small number of human beings,…

— Rachel Carson

It is especially difficult for modern people to conceive that our modern, scientific age might not be an improvement over the prescientific period.

— Michael Crichton

Science and religion...are friends, not foes, in the common quest for knowledge. Some people may find this surprising, for there's a feeling throughout our…

— John Polkinghorne

Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad — but it does not carry instructions on how to use it.

— Richard P. Feynman

“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire…

— George Bernard Shaw

“Leonardo believed his research had the potential to convert millions to a more spiritual life. Last year he categorically proved the existence of an…

— Dan Brown

When you're reaching out to people beyond the scientific community, image does matter.

— Lisa Randall

“Philosophers have said before that one of the fundamental requisites of science is that whenever you set up the same conditions, the same thing…

— Richard P. Feynman

It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions.

— Richard P. Feynman

That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

— Maria Mitchell

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction. I subscribe to…

— James Rollins

Fans are always asking me where I get my ideas from. The answer is that I'm very curious, and I get inspiration from everywhere.…

— Tess Gerritsen

Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be a discovery;…

— Franz Kafka