There are trappings of science fiction which I kind of embrace, but there are also cliches which I run from.
The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.
My successes already accomplished have mostly been taking existing science and getting people to apply it in their everyday lives.
It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.
The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.
This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.
Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.
In the snobbery of science, each branch attempts to rise in the social scale by imitating the methods of the next higher science and by ignoring the methods and phenomena of the sciences beneath.
Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, the hidden Science of attaining and maintaining wakefulness.
Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and it must be also a story.
New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.
There is no significant man-made Global Warming underway and the science on which the computer projections of weather chaos are based is badly flawed.
Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.
I take the view that we all have permission to be a little baffled by quantum information science and algorithmic information theory.
Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet.
Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain.
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.
Britain punches way above its weight in science, and I think we need to continue to do that, and anything that makes it easier to bring scientists in will be very welcome.
Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science.
Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will hold, but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement.
I've always been a science fiction fan since I had understood the conception of what a story was.
