Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

We lack rituals in this modern world.

Scotland almost invented the modern world. I mean, all of these televisions, telephones, penicillin, we all - all of these things were invented in Scotland.

A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason.

Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.

Modern science is predicated on 'truths' verified through accurate observation and measurements of physical world phenomena.