I'm on a crusade to get movie directors to get their science right because, more often than they believe, the science is more extraordinary than anything they can invent.
Modern science tells us that the conscious self arises from a purely physical brain. We do not have immaterial souls.
Science fiction is about worlds you don't know and worlds you can create, like in 'Avatar'.
Science - or the products of science like technology - is just a way of achieving something real, something that happens, something that works.
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
If there is no fundamental science then there is no basis for applied science. We have to strike a balance. 23 years ago the World Wide Web was born here. It has changed the world dramatically.
Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.
If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur.
The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing about science.
I'm big on the importance of science, particularly right now at this point in time when there's sort of a systematic rejection of science by a lot of people in America.
I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.
I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.
! want to leverage the creativity of researchers across mathematics, statistics, data mining, computer science, biology, medicine, and the public at large.
To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit. In fact, to pursue science rightly is to furnish the framework on which the spirit may rise.
I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.
I love science fiction when it's well-done. I don't like campy stuff. I don't like stuff that's too fantastical.
It's ironic: In movies, the most successful films of all time have been sci-fi or fantasy. By far. But a lot of people won't even read science fiction books.
As a boy, my favorite show was 'Superman' and my favorite movie was 'Star Wars' - along with other science fiction shows and movies. And I always wanted to fly.
I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.
I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
It's better to use science to apply science than to use common sense to apply a great idea.
