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.
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
Science is like a flashlight in the hands of people living in a huge balloon. They can illuminate anything in the balloon, but cannot shine it outside the balloon to see where it is floating - or if it is floating at all.
I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many different sciences, and historians will tell different stories corresponding to different things.
Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.
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.
To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'
I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.
I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.
The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.
My parents wanted me to be a doctor. So I took up science, but then realised that my heart was not in it at all. The thought of treating ailing people was very depressing.
