After all science is essentially international and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.

Biology is now bigger than physics as measured by the size of budgets by the size of the workforce or by the output of major discoveries and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century.

Strictly speaking the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information and indigestible glut of information and less and less understanding.

Politicians should read science fiction not westerns and detective stories.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery surrounded by it.

Science is all metaphor.

The most watched programme on the BBC after the news is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe.