Modern science tells us that the conscious self arises from a purely physical brain. We do not have immaterial souls.

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

For better or worse we're in an age of disbelief," Rico said, "An age of science and a need for proof.

Just as primitive man believed himself to stand face to face with demons and believed that could he but know their names he would become their master, so is contemporary man faced by this incomprehensible, which disorders his calculations. "If I can but grasp it, if I can but cognise it", so he thinks, "I can make it my servant.

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

The modern research laboratory can be a large and complicated social organism.