Accepting Quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson

No one suggests that writing about science will turn the entire world into a model of judgment and creative thought. It will be enough…

— Isaac Asimov

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

At the heart of science lies discovery which involves a change in worldview. Discovery in science is possible only in societies which accord their…

— John Charles Polanyi

Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism . . . the great masters of the past boasted all they could…

— Ezra Pound

Humankind has the science and technology to destroy itself or to provide prosperity for all. But while science offers us these opportunities, science will…

— Margaret Beckett

Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization.

— Max Born

Our schools offer no conception of the scientific process of discovery. They do not encourage creative thought, in fact, they stifle it through too…

— Anonymous

The new knowledge has not yet settled in culture. It has not yet been integrated in a new cosmic conception.

— Johan Huizinga

I think it's too fast to say that all sci-fi ultimately winds up having some place in science. On the other hand, imaginative minds…

— Brian Greene

Science contributes to our culture in many ways, as a creative intellectual activity in its own right, as the light which has served to…

— John F. Kennedy

Science is an enterprise that can only flourish if it puts the truth ahead of nationality, ethnicity, class and color.

— Anonymous

“In its encounter with Nature, science invariably elicits a sense of reverence and awe. The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining,…

— Carl Sagan