To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.
When you do something in a nonviolent way, people will die and there will be casualties. But you're taking a different point of view that has a power.
The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think.
I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.
Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country. It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world.
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
One of the problems with organized religion is that it has always kept women in a second-class position. They have been viewed as the daughters of Eve.
This book is about physics and its about physics and its relationship with mathematics and how they seem to be intimately related and to what extent can you explore this relationship and trust it.
The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought and perhaps defeated.
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
All of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses.
Many of us like to think of financial economics as a science, but complex events like the financial crisis suggest that this conceit may be more wishful thinking than reality.
The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.
Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.
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.
Quantum mechanics broke the mold of the previous framework, classical mechanics, by establishing that the predictions of science are necessarily probabilistic.
I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
The East Germans first used biomechanics. This meant that rather than guessing about technique and form, they could apply changes to athletic performance based on science.
I have always loved science, but I have always loved the arts - drawing, painting and, yes, writing - more.
