Science fiction is about things that plausibly might happen. Grounding my work in the real world helps make that clear.
Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.
Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on the human condition.
When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.
Science arose from poetry… when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
I studied political science and international relations and had the intention of becoming a journalist or work in foreign affairs. I had no intention of making a film.
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
The Science Coalition, which grew out of an initial concept at Harvard and at MIT, has now grown to an informal group of about 60 research universities.
There has no doubt to be fundamental research in science, but applied research is equally important for new improvements and changes in our techniques.
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
What we want is scientists who don’t become part of the policy discussion: All they do is produce science. If someone becomes an advocate, then I won’t pay as much attention to their science.
The happiest people I’ve found are in science. These people have three times the IQ – maybe I’m exaggerating. They have a higher IQ than I do. They love what they’re doing, they have a good family life, they’re satisfied.
Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
Science is curiosity, testing and experimenting.
The big lesson of planetary science is when you do a first reconnaissance of a new kind of object, you should expect the unexpected.
It’s very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery.
A lot of what the ‘Culture’ is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
A feeling for history is almost an essential for writing and appreciating good science fiction, for sensing the connections between the past and future that run through our present.
Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
‘Healing,’ Papa would tell me, ‘is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.’
