This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed the ashes of some four million people. And that was not done by gas. It was done by arrogance. It was done by dogma. It was done by ignorance. When people believe that they have absolute knowledge, with no test in reality, this is how they behave.
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.
Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.
Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.