In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.

Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.

There can be no truce between science and religion.

And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.