It's fun being in Islamic countries, to know there's only one religion. There's order. You wear a burqa. There's no choice. People are happy with that.
The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.
The most likely victim of actual religious discrimination in British society is a Muslim, but the person who is most likely to feel slighted because of their religion is an evangelical Christian.
Science is telling us that we can do phenomenal things if we put our minds and our resources to it.
It is easier for a libertarian to attack the science of global warming than to alter one's core libertarian beliefs.
You can't stop technology or science, and it is snowballing quicker than ever. Something's got to come to a head. How? Who knows? But it will.
Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.
That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
My brother is a scientist. He's a professor at MIT. He brought science fiction into my world.
People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
There are few moments in science in which you genuinely are excited. The discovery of superfluidity in helium-3 was one of those moments.
Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.
I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.
The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.
I did an O-level in domestic science when I was at school, but on the day of the practical exam, it was a cookery nightmare.
Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.
Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different.
The 'science' for which the United States is respected has nothing to do with the unscientific and baseless theory of evolution.
