"...People talk about science, its solidity, its foundation, its development or its dangers; unfortunately, almost none of them are interested in science in the making. They shy away from the disorderly mixture revealed by science in action and prefer the orderly pattern of scientific method and rationality. Defending science and reason against pseudo-sciences, against fraud, against irrationality, keeps most of these people too busy to study it. As to the millions, or billions, of outsiders, they know about science and technology through popularisation only. The facts and the artefacts they produce fall on their head like an external fate as foreign, as inhuman, as unpredictable as the olden Fatum of the Romans..."