We have to learn how scientists arrive at decisions. Once you use the scientific method, it doesn’t mean that your decisions will be perfect. They’ll be far more accurate than just opinions. Jacque Fresco

“The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.” Neil deGrasse Tyson

“It is the birthright of every child to encounter the cosmos anew, in every culture and every age. When this happens to us, we experience a deep sense of wonder. The most fortunate among us are guided by teachers who channel this exhilaration. We are born to delight in the world. We are taught to distinguish our preconceptions from the truth. Then, new worlds are discovered as we decipher the mysteries of the cosmos.” Carl Sagan

“The evolution of complex life, its very existence in a universe obeying physical laws is wonderfully surprising, or would be, up for the fact that surprise is an emotion that can exist only in a brain which is the product of that very surprising process. Our existence is desperately surprising. Natural selection produces living organisms which are entities of gigantic but not infinite probability. On one planet, and possibly only one planet in the entire universe, molecules which would normally would made nothing more complicated than a chunk of rock, have some how manage to gather them selves together into chunks of rock size matter, capable in some cases of thinking and feeling and falling in love yet other chunks of complex matter. What we see of the real world, in a sense is not the unvarnished real world, but a model of the real world regulated and adjusted by sense data, but constructed so is useful for dealing with real world. The nature of the model in our head depends of the kind of animal we are.” Richard Dawkins

“Science is too important not to be part of popular culture. It is, as Carl Sagan always emphasized, "it is absolutely the foundation of our society, we live in a scientific society”, so to have a society where science is some how divorced from the rest of culture is seems to me as Sagan said again “Anti-democratic”. It is anti-democratic cause you have people who live in democracy who lives are controlled by scientific decisions. If they no nothing about the science, then there is a democratic deficit. And you have problems because society can make decisions that are not based on reason.“ Professor Brian Cox

“In 5 billion years, the expansion of the universe will have progressed to the point where all other galaxies will have receded beyond detection. Indeed, they will be receding faster than the speed of light, so detection will be impossible. Future civilizations will discover science and all its laws, and never know about other galaxies or the cosmic background radiation. They will inevitably come to the wrong conclusion about the universe……. We live in a special time, the only time, where we can observationally verify that we live in a special time." Lawrence Krauss

“A lot of what we’ve learned about science tells us that our "common sense” it’s just wrong. We evolved to avoid lions on the savanna, not to understand quantum mechanics, so the fact that our common sense is wrong is not such a bad thing, it’s called learning.

The fact that we have to change our minds shouldn’t be a threat, it’s a wonderful thing to force your beliefs to conform to the evidence of reality. 

It’s amazing to discover you are wrong, in fact, it’s liberating. That’s one of the great things about science. It opens your mind.“ Lawrence Krauss