"Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period"

"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage"

"Science never solves a problem without creating ten more"

"All science is either physics or stamp collecting"

"The science of today is the technology of tomorrow"

"Science does not know its debt to imagination"

"The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum"

"If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic"

"I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up"

"Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science"

"An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt"