In 's ... it was in that novel that, for the first time, I learned Neptune had a satellite named Triton... It was from that I first learned there was a Mato Grosso area in the Amazon basin. It was from and other stories by that I first heard of relat...
Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.
Magic is only unexplained science. Science is explained magic. When I study science, I study magic. When I study magic, I study science.
You cannot create new science unless you realize where the old science leaves off and new science begins, and science fiction forces us to confront this.
Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it's one of the more interesting human sciences.
Look, the whole world wants to modernize, and when you look to what they mean by modernizing, they mean Americanize. Would a modern Greek prefer to live in Orange County than Piraeus? Yes. Absolutely.
Modern life seems to recede further and further away from nature, and closely connected with this fact we seem to be losing the feeling of reverence towards nature. It is probably inevitable when science and machinery, capitalism and materialism go h...
I love to collect modern art.
I am trying to write stuff that is different. I am a big science fan. I read a lot of science, and 'Wonderland' has a lot of science in it. I don't know. They are hard to describe... We are living in a wonderland age of science.
I had decided after 'Hollow Man' to stay away from science fiction. I felt I had done so much science fiction. Four of the six movies I made in Hollywood are science-fiction oriented, and even 'Basic Instinct' is kind of science fiction.
The point is , if i'd known all this years earlier, maybe I would have put some thought into how I actually wanted to dress, look and behave because I would have understood that I didn't need to be constrained to playing the part of the platonic, mis...
The incommensurability between the modern economic system and the people who staff it explains why modern workers have so often been depicted as 'cogs' in the larger 'machinery' of industrial civilization; for while the practical rationalization of e...
I love the modern technology now.
I think the common experience is that modern shamans are called by the spirits; we just don’t have a collective belief system or community that recognizes the calling for what it is.
It's not rocket science. It's social science.
I love science fiction. I read a lot of science fiction.
Patriotism is racism for the modern era.
We lack rituals in this modern world.
I'm not good at the modern world.
More modern poetry is written than read.
It has been argued that close attention to the history of science is indispensable for doing good philosophy of science.
