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 started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.
What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can get a parrot to do that.
I'm on a crusade to get movie directors to get their science right because, more often than they believe, the science is more extraordinary than anything they can invent.
Science is an enterprise that should be cherished as an activity of the free human mind. Because it transforms who we are, how we live, and it gives us an understanding of our place in the universe.
The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how you think.
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.
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.
Science fiction is about worlds you don't know and worlds you can create, like in 'Avatar'.
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.
Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.
If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur.
Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it's one of the more interesting human sciences.
My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table.
According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes.
Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.
I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.
Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors.
The third-person or 'objective,' static, reductive models used in most science are important and yield significant results, but they have their limitations.
