Justice must always question itself just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal not merely a gregarious animal but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

Society is at odds with itself.

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

I do love science fiction but it's not really a genre unto itself it always seems to merge with another genre. With the few movies I've done I've ended up playing with genre in some way or another so any genre that's made to mix with others is like candy to me. It allows you to use big mythic situations to talk about ordinary things.

Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.

The modern mind tends to be more and more critical and analytical in spirit hence it must devise for itself an engine of expression which is logically defensible at every point and which tends to correspond to the rigorous spirit of modern science.

Without renouncing the support of physics it is possible for the physiology of the senses not only to pursue its own course of development but also to afford to physical science itself powerful assistance.

In general science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature Cell The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.