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“As Freud observed, our relationship with science must be paradoxical because we are forced to pay an almost intolerable price for each major gain in knowledge and power—the psychological cost of progressive dethronement from the center of things, and increasing marginality in an uncaring universe.”
― Stephen Jay Gould

“Thus, physics and astronomy relegated our world to a corner of the cosmos, and biology shifted our status from a simulacrum of God to a naked, upright ape.”
― Stephen Jay Gould, Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

“We must regard science, then, from three points of view. First, it is the free activity of man's divine faculties of reason and imagination. Secondly, it is the answer of the few to the demands of the many for wealth, comfort and victory, gifts which it will grant only in exchange for peace, security and stagnation. Finally it is man's gradual conquest, first of space and time, the of matters as such, then of his own body and those of other living beings, and finally the subjugation of the dark and evil elements in his own soul.”
― Freeman Dyson, The Scientist as Rebel

“If science ceases to be a rebellion against authority, then it does not deserve the talents of our brightest children.”
― Freeman Dyson, The Scientist as Rebel