Science can advance human knowledge, it cannot make humanity cherish truth.

Like the Christians of former times, scientists are caught up in the web of power; they struggle for survival and success; their view of the world is a patchwork of conventional beliefs.

Science cannot bring ‘miracle, mystery and authority’ to humankind, if only because – like those who served the Church in the past – its servants are all too human."

-- John Gray, Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals