“The beginning of wisdom, I believe, is our ability to accept an inherent messiness in our explanation of what's going on. Nowhere is it written that human minds should be able to give a full accoun...”

“Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.”

“I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.”

“Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are bas...”

“The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing about science.”

“The facts of science are real enough, and so are the techniques that scientists use, and so are the technologies based on them. But the belief system that governs conventional scientific thinking i...”