“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.”
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I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.