If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
Well, when you look at a lot of science fiction novels they’re asking questions about power. There are questions about what it means to have power and what are the long-term consequences of power.
I don’t know whether it is important to study science at a young age, though current thinking emphasises the need.
Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.
I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.
We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
When people use the word ‘science,’ it’s often a tell, like in poker, that you’re bluffing.
I’ve always loved science fiction, fantasy, manga, comic books; so I guess, to some degree, those things influence my personal idea of what looks nice, which definitely isn’t everyone else’s.
My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became a science fiction writer.
I grew up in Saudi Arabia and India and Cyprus, and I lived in a war-zone myself, and, I mean, I had a pretty bizarre, I guess, nomadic childhood, and so I was really drawn to international relations and political science.
The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
Only by ignorance is science threatened.
I follow science and common sense. Science says you should eat a variety of foods and eat more fruits and vegetables – I do that.
Science has become politicized, and that’s an embarrassment.
Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.
The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that’s the appeal of science fiction.
Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors.
Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term ‘doubting Thomas’ well illustrates the difference.
Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.
Science is the quintessential international endeavour, and the sterling reputation of the Nobel awards is partly due to the widely-perceived lack of national and other biases in the selection of the laureates.
Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.
Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.
A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life.
Science fiction has never been about the future; it’s always been about the present day whether it’s Victorian England that Wells was writing about or the post-9/11 era that I’m writing about.
