"Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science."

Edward Abbey

"The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to 
infinite error."

Bertolt Brecht, The Life of Galileo (1939) sc. 9
"There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination."

Daniel C. Dennett

"Science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however springs from the sphere of religion. To this there also belongs the faith in the possibility that the regulations valid for the world of existence are rational, that is, comprehensible to reason. I cannot conceive of a genuine scientist without that profound faith. The situation may be expressed by an image:science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions, p. 46 (1954)

"Science is the topography of ignorance."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Reason creates science; sentiments and creeds shape history."

Gustave Le Bon
"The dogmatism of science has become a new orthodoxy, disseminated by the Media and a State educational system with a thoroughness and subtlety far exceeding anything of the kind achieved by the Inquisition; to the point that to believe today in a miraculous happening like the Virgin Birth is to appear a kind of imbecile...."

Malcolm Muggeridge

"I suppose that every age has its own particular fantasy: ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Blaise Pascal, who thought himself a mathematician and scientist of genius, found it quite ridiculous that anyone should suppose that rational processes could lead to any ultimate conclusions about life, but easily accepted the authority of the Scriptures. With us, it is the other way `round...."

Malcolm Muggeridge, Jesus Rediscovered [1969]

"There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of 
conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact."

Mark Twain
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