Numa sociedade sem justiça social e com uma ideologia de livre-mercado, as armas, a ambição e as cadeias estão fadadas a vencer. - Freeman Dyson

... the most important questions and insights and goals are unpredictable.

The progress of science requires the growth of understanding in both directions, downward from the whole to the parts and upward from the parts to the whole. A reductionist philosophy, arbitrarily proclaiming that the growth of understanding must go only in one direction, makes no scientific sense. Indeed, dogmatic philosophical beliefs of any kind have no place in science.

my first recommendation to people in charge of science education is, more money for public libraries and museums. Public libraries and museums ought to be as common as schools.