Talking nice about sun and wind and green jobs is just greenwash.
Space is not a good place to mix foods because as soon as you take something out of the package, it becomes a flying object.
Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride.
'Red Dawn' was really the most fun I ever had making a movie, because I love Westerns, and I love the idea of being a tomboy, and riding horses and shooting guns.
In the late '60s, I was seven, eight, nine years old, and what was going on in the news at that time that really excited a seven, eight, nine year old boy was the Space Race.
If I have to move up in a building, I choose the elevator over the escalator. Because one time I was riding the escalator and I tripped. I fell down the stairs for an hour and a half.
The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions - even parading without a permit!
Jenny Curran: Can I have a ride? Pickup-Truck Driver: Where are you going? Jenny Curran: I don't care.
Gandalf: I ride for Minas Tirith... [looks at Pippin] Gandalf: ...and I won't be going alone.
We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.
Fortunately, nature is as generous with its problems as Nobel with his fortune. The more we know, the more aware we are of what we know not.
Nature gives us all, including Prof. Lorentz, surprises. It was very quickly found that there are many exceptions to the rule of splitting of the lines only into triplets.
I have no doubt that Brian May would have had a brilliant career in science had he completed his Ph.D. in 1971.
What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.
In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not enough to account for the small numbers of women, particularly in mathematics and physics.
Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.
It was actually pretty difficult to grow up in the Star City. There were regular kids around me, and everybody knew that my father was a cosmonaut. Even at school, every teacher could comment on my behavior just because I was considered special.
I love animals, but I don't really like riding animals. Like, I don't love being on a horse - it's just not my thing.
I'm not a huge gym person, so I try to stay away from the gym. But I love to run on the beach or go for a walk. It's better than riding a stationary bike.
You were up at 5 o'clock in the morning, and then you'd ride in a caravan, because we didn't have big movie trucks or trailers that is the hardware of a movie camp.
Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.
