But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.
I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least an attempt to create a poem.
My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
When I'm working on a film, I think about how it will play with a tiny audience of friends whose opinions I respect - basically, a 40-bloc radius from my apartment in Manhattan.
My stories are about humans and how they react, or fail to react, or react stupidly. I'm pointing the finger at us, not at the zombies. I try to respect and sympathize with the zombies as much as possible.
At the end of the day, people have to respect people's differences. I am different than some people would like me to be.
Perhaps I seek certain utopian things, space for human honour and respect, landscapes not yet offended, planets that do not exist yet, dreamed landscapes.
All of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses.
In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.
That's the show. it's like 5 minutes of science and then 10 minutes of me hurting myself.
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.
I have always loved science, but I have always loved the arts - drawing, painting and, yes, writing - more.
Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati.
The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example.
There are trappings of science fiction which I kind of embrace, but there are also cliches which I run from.
