Quotable

In the attempt...to enhance our ethical and moral sensibilities, people have often appealed to the humanities....I am skeptical about this....[Remember] that people returned from a day’s work as guards in the concentration camps and then put Mozart on their gramophones....

—June Goodfield, “Humanity in Science” 

As you go out into the world...remember that I, an old man, who has known only science all my life long, say to you, that there is nothing truer in all the universe than the scientific statements contained in the Word of God.

—Professor J. D. Dana, at the time the greatest living scientist, addressing a Yale University graduating class