“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.” – Carl Sagan

“What standards will guide the genetic engineers?” – Leon Kass

“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” – Robert Heinlein

“There are no conflicts which cannot be resolved unless the true promoters of them remain hidden.” – L. Ron Hubbard

“Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism.” – Carl Sagan

“Are we an exceptionally unlikely accident or is the universe brimming over with intelligence? (It’s) a vital question for understanding ourselves and our history.” - Carl Sagan

“The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.” – Stephen Hawking

“To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.” – Stephen Hawking

“A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment.” – Carl Sagan