"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."
Max Planck
"Man wants an ideology and philosophy of life, to assure him of the greatest good on earth--peace of mind. And if religion fails to satisfy his longing, he will seek a substitute in exact science."
Max Planck
“Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.”
Neil Postman
"One could not be a successful scientist, without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid."
James Watson
"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties."
Sir Francis Bacon
"The original question, "Can machines think?" I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion. Nevertheless I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted."
Alan Turing
"Is the computer a food or a drug? Do we use it to stimulate the way we teach, deal with, learn and think about the increasing abstractness of our world; or do we use it as a sedative, to make us drowsy, and unaware of the real world around us? The choice will be a historical one."
Niklaus Wirth
"The intention of the Holy Spirit is to teach how one goes to heaven, not how heaven goes."
Galileo
"Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes."
Pope John Paul II