Contributors Quote by Abba Eban

Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don't worship it. Feed it.

— Aubrey Eben

Science is not a sacred cow-but there are a large number of would-be sacred cowherds busily devoting quantities of time, energy and effort to…

— John W. Campbell

“...science is the kind of sacred cow which theology was five hundred years ago…”

— John Lukacs

I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.

— Carl Sagan

By investigating God's majestic and awesome creation, science can actually be a means of worship.

— Francis Collins

Science shouldn't be just for scientists, and there are encouraging signs that it is becoming more pervasive in culture and the media.

— Martin Rees

“Science is a religion, like any other religion. The people that follow science do it blindly, in pure faith. Scientists are merely the priests…

— Patrick Graham

“Science is no inexorable march to truth, mediated by the collection of objective information and the destruction of ancient superstition. Scientists, as ordinary human…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“I long for a civilization to develop a level of science literacy, so that we can become better shepherds of our future on this…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Science is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being.

— Carl Sagan

Modern man worships at the temple of science, but science tells him only what is possible, not what is right.

— Milton S. Eisenhower

“Science is a trigger of changes of civilization. Religion is the failsafe of science performance.”

— Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident