“Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.”– Baruch Spinoza Related Quotes “There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.”– Leon Kass “I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.”– Octavia Butler “That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.”– Edward Abbey