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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.

And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms... The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization.

Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit.

We simply need to believe in the power that's within us, and use it.

Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.

We have to realize that science is a double-edged sword. One edge of the sword can cut against poverty, illness, disease and give us more democracies, and democracies never war with other democracies, but the other side of the sword could give us nuclear proliferation, biogerms and even forces of darkness.