We're looking at Earth science, observing our planet. Also space science, looking at the ozone in the atmosphere around our Earth. Also looking at life science. And on a human level, using ourselves as test subjects.
Science is not a collection of facts. Nor is science something that happens in the laboratory. Science happens in the head. It's a flight of imagination beyond the constraints of ordinary perception. Columbus chapter -The Virgin and the Mousetrap
My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other journals, including some usually devoted to archaeological and other science material.
We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it.
Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive; it can tell us about causes but it cannot tell us about purposes. Indeed, science disavows purposes.
We physicists don't like to admit it, but some of us are closet science fiction fans. We hate to admit it because it sounds undignified. But when we were children, that's when we got interested in science, for a lot of us.
I liked science very much. A science teacher in high school inspired me, and because of him, I began studying science at the university. But when I got there... well, the subject still attracted me a lot ,but I had to do all these exams, and it was j...
When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to it was the critical knowledge that science fiction was always about the period in which it was written.
Regarding vengeance and arch-enemies, one must not only be timely but prideful, and pride exacts propriety.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
I wanted to do that again but, when I went to look for chants, I didn't want to do it in the exact same way.
To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty.
My problem with interviews, one day I'll think one thing, and the next day I'll think the exact opposite.
No man shall be more exacting of me or my conduct than I am of myself.
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
Similarly, another famous little quantum fluctuation that programs you is the exact configuration of your DNA.
The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.
It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and favourable forms would not be perpetuated by natural selection.
[He]said something that made it impossible to continue working for him.[The exact words were]You're fired.
