Sure science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe.

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence not mastery.

For me science is already fantastical enough. Unlocking the secrets of nature with fundamental physics or cosmology or astrobiology leads you into a wonderland compared with which beliefs in things like alien abductions pale into insignificance.

Science is a wonderful discipline to which we are deeply indebted.

I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However science used to be much less specialized.

The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

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

That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.

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

Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars conquer the deserts eradicate disease tap the ocean depths and encourage the arts and commerce.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.

I know for works for me - those wonderful sad love songs.

I would love to be married. But it's not a necessity like the way that I feel I need and want to have children. It would be wonderful to have a husband and I would feel blessed to do it. But I would feel sad for the rest of my life if I had no kids.

Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.

The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening terror. Conversely the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.