The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science especially in the schools of America.

I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance.

Science in the modern world has many uses its chief use however is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

This world after all our science and sciences is still a miracle wonderful inscrutable magical and more to whosoever will think of it.

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.