But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.
I don't disrespect anybody who espouses a particular religion or belief - that is their own right to do that. But I think it's terribly important to look beyond the comfort that religion gives.
Religion cannot and should not be replaced by atheism. Religion needs to go away and not be replaced by anything. Atheism is not a religion. It's the absence of religion, and that's a wonderful thing.
I'm not much interested in extrapolating science and technology; I merely use extrapolation as a means of putting people into new quandaries which produce colorful pressures and conflicts.
I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.
I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
It's important that our children are raised to be educated, well-rounded tax-paying citizens that understand the importance of technology and science.
We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out there for science to come to grips with.
There are trappings of science fiction which I kind of embrace, but there are also cliches which I run from.
I studied science and journalism at the University of Colorado and then got interested in experimental film there and started doing my own films.
My successes already accomplished have mostly been taking existing science and getting people to apply it in their everyday lives.
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
Science is like a flashlight in the hands of people living in a huge balloon. They can illuminate anything in the balloon, but cannot shine it outside the balloon to see where it is floating - or if it is floating at all.
My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.
I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many different sciences, and historians will tell different stories corresponding to different things.
Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.
Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.
I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.
The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.
I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.
