The Enlightenment was an attempt to liberate myth and base truth claims on evidence, not just dogma. But when science threw out the church, they threw out the baby with the bath water.
When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.
I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy.
The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.
Much of today's public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may forever be overlooking the whole by an endless, obsessive preoccupation with the parts.
Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It's a question of how those tools are used by people.
I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.
In thus pointing out certain respects in which philosophy resembles literature more than science, I do not mean, of course, to imply that it would be well for philosophy if it ceased to aim at scientific rigor.
Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over world-building.
Mysteries once thought to be supernatural or paranormal happenings - such as astronomical or meteorological events - are incorporated into science once their causes are understood.
Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena.
Science operates in the natural, not the supernatural. In fact, I go so far as to state that there is no such thing as the supernatural or the paranormal.
I actually consider myself as totally privileged to be able to serve science and medicine in a global fashion, because science and medicine know no boundaries.
No matter what engineering field you're in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.
I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.
And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
Modern science tells us that the conscious self arises from a purely physical brain. We do not have immaterial souls.
I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.
In many ways, acting is really like a science to me to figure out the human behavior of any character that I'm playing.
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
