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Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training.

I get a sense that we've all been educated into one school of thought. I'm not surprised at all to find among the overwhelming majority of scientists, are people who would hold one particular view because that's all they're exposed to.

The general public has long been divided into two parts those who think science can do anything, and those who are afraid it will.

If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.

The impression sometimes created among the public is that scientists are working away in their labs, and maybe they're not always thinking about the implications of their work. But we are.

Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to be done by others.

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.

Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.

The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how you think.

Moreover, only a strong and united scientific opinion imposing the intrinsic value of scientific progress on society at large can elicit the support of scientific inquiry by the general public.