I’m a fierce defender of science because there are two great castles that we as a species have built - one is science and one is art. You can say anything about art, but science is cumulative and people say, “I can’t understand what’s at the top of that, so I’m just going to scrabble around in the mud outside the castle and build my own shitty version of it out of reassuring platitudes and borrowed terms.

Dara O’Briain

Comedian. Physicist. Warrior against bad science.

From New Scientist’s Graduate Special: Mock the Geek interview. (via. Ben Goldacre.) Via: newscientist.com.