Of course we’re intimidated by science! Science holds
itself above everybody else—above God, evidently.
You guys have been kicking ass since the Enlightenment.

—STEPHEN COLBERT

 

 

Instead of being derided as geeks or nerds, scientists should be seen as courageous realists and the last great heroic explorers of the unknown. They should get more money, more publicity, better clothes, more sex and free rehab when the fame goes to their heads.

—MATTHEW CHAPMAN,
screenwriter and cofounder, Science Debate 2008