Galileo Galilei: The intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how heaven goes.

Howard Nemerov: Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated.

Jacob Bronowski: No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

Ralph Sockman: Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.