“Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.”– Gregory Bateson Related Quotes “When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who’d get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.”– Scott Thompson “Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.”– Friedrich Durrenmatt “The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.”– Robert A. Heinlein