In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.

The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle, leaving only the details to be filled in.

Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.

The Gaia Hypothesis of James Lovelock [and Lynn Margulis] puts forward a scientific view of the living Earth, which in one respect is modern, empherical, scientific, in another respect re-awakens an ancient archetype, which in fact is so clearly suggested by the very name of the hypothesis, Gaia, the Greek name for Mother Earth.

Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.

I have been a scientist for more than 40 years, having studied at Cambridge and Harvard. I researched and taught at Cambridge University, was a research fellow of the Royal Society, and have more than 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals. I am strongly pro-science.

I think that creativity depends on having sufficient indeterminacy around for a new pattern to arise up within it.