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.
There are trappings of science fiction which I kind of embrace, but there are also cliches which I run from.
The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.
I studied science and journalism at the University of Colorado and then got interested in experimental film there and started doing my own films.
My successes already accomplished have mostly been taking existing science and getting people to apply it in their everyday lives.
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.
My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.
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.
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.
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.
I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.
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 hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
