Extreme behavior patterns

Now, during Covid-19 we are witnessing at the same time the two extremes of human behavior in many ways. 

On one side really valuing science and waiting for its valuable solution/solutions and at the same time engaging in manifesting our talents, frustrations, doubts, delusional superstitions etc.

I feel two quotes one each from two great scholars which sum up precisely our state of mind now.

1.   That's why Thomas Paine wrote "Science, the partisan of no country, but the beneficent patroness of all, has liberally opened a temple where all may meet. Her influence on the mind, like the sun on the chilled earth, has long been preparing it for higher cultivation and further improvement. The philosopher in one country sees not an enemy in the philosopher of another; he takes his seat in the temple of science, and asks not who sits beside him ..."  

2.    Blaise Pascal in his Pansees, “What a Chimera is man! What a novelty, a monster, a chaos, a contradiction, a prodigy! Judge of all things, an imbecile worm; depository of truth, and sewer of error and doubt; the glory and refuse of the universe.”