Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat leading to bad science and worse religion.

Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion but in time a scientific result will establish itself.

Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity for if man's power is increased the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

I scientifically engineer my music to be as accessible as possible.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions but you really climb for the hell of it.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Another cause of change one less noticeable but fundamental is the modern growth of population closely connected with scientific and medical discoveries. It is interesting that the United Nations has set up a special Commission to study this question.

Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances.

I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior.

I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.

So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama learning the literature on evolution what was known about it biologically just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular scientific view of the world.

Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is or can be proven knowledge.