As a kid I wanted to write science fiction, and I was never without a book. Later I really got into being a scientist and never thought Id be writing novels. – Daniel H. Wilson

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. – Arthur M. Schlesinger

Science is an integral part of culture. Its not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. Its one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition. – Stephen Jay Gould