To an important extent, indeed, scientific research has become the secular religion of materialistic society; and it is somewhat paradoxical that a country whose constitution enforces the strict separation of church and state should have contributed so much public money to the establishment and propagation of scientific pessimism.

In: National Academy of Sciences, Basic Research and National Goals: A Report to the Committee on, Science and Astronautics Federal Support of Basic Research: Some, Economic Issues, Note 4 (p. 141)