What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.

Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world.

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

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.