Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged beneficiaries – the arts and humanities.
At the age of six, I declared that I wanted to be an astronaut. My mother thought that was just fine, as it would encourage me to learn science, and besides, there really was no chance I would ever actually become an astronaut.
Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.
Science fiction is a unique literature. Science fiction is the first literature that says, ‘Tomorrow is going to be different than yesterday, it’s going to be a lot different.’
Reiterating the belief that HIV is the cause of AIDS is an easy thing to do. Understanding the science and politics of the situation is much more complicated and requires study with a critical and open mind.
I am keen to serve one-sixth of the world’s population where the miracles of science and technology would multiply manifold for betterment of mankind.
Science is a principle and a process of seeking truth. Truth cannot be purchased, and thus, truth cannot be altered by money.
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
I am a great fan of science, but I cannot do a quadratic equation.
Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
I did some research on cryonics and cryogenics, but I kept it to a minimum because I didn’t want the science part of the novel to overshadow the fiction. Being medically accurate wasn’t my main goal.
At the intersection of food science and technology, food replacement startups are creating substitutes for the basic components of meals as well as replacements for complete meals.
Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
Usually, girls weren’t encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen, made math appealing and motivated me to continue studying it in college.
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.
We pretend that the debate about genetically modified crops is a debate about science when the reality is, actually, that the science is very clear. It is really a debate about values.
Acting is not rocket science, but it is an art form. What you are doing is illuminating humanity. Or not.
Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We’re dreamers, you see, but we’re also realists, of a sort.
When it comes to art and science, people don’t like a lot of either. Instead of being open to it, they’re closed off about it.
It is the public that is illiterate in science and math, a lazy press, and environmental advocacy groups that manufacture fear for misconceptions about energy.
People challenge my nerd cred all the time. I just show them the photo of me winning my middle-school science fair, wearing my Casio calculator watch and eyeglasses so big they look like they can see the future.
I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn’t really know how to code until I formed a company.
As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs.
