After sketching his program for the scientific revolution that he foresaw, Bacon ends his account with a prayer: 'Humbly we pray that this mind may be steadfast in us, and that through these our hands, and the hands of others to whom thou shalt give the same spirit, thou wilt vouchsafe to endow the human family with new mercies'. That is still a good prayer for all of us as we begin the twenty-first century.

To talk about the end of science is just as foolish as to talk about the end of religion. Science and religion are both still close to their beginnings, with n…

Science and religion are two windows that people look through, trying to understand the big universe outside, trying to understand why we are here. The two win…

I am saying to modern scientists and theologians: don't imagine that our latest ideas about the Big Bang or the human genome have solved the mysteries of the u…

Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is pur…

The blame for Armageddon lies on man. And the millennium will come only when the average man exhibits a scientific integrity about all he is and does--instead …

Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use it differently.