It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.
But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.
Science is measurement. Measurement is not science but technology.
In its encounter with Nature, science invariably elicits a sense of reverence and awe. The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos. And the cumulative worldwi...
It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom and tradition, of vast resources running to waste, or a rich country inhabited by starving people... Who indee...
And why does England thus persecute the votaries of her science? Why does she depress them to the level of her hewers of wood and her drawers of water? Is it because science flatters no courtier, mingles in no political strife? ... Can we behold unmo...
Good fiction doesn’t claim to mirror reality at all. It indicts reality by providing a paradigm of shape and order and justice—the way we all know things should be—without suggesting that’s how things really are. Good fiction is the mirage th...
Politics is not an exact science.
There is no hospitality like understanding.
Which came first — the observer or the particle?
I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all.
Archive material is vital to the writer of historical fiction.
I've always been drawn to historical fiction.
Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.
Fiction genres are stranger than fiction, as the saying goes.
Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
Science is measurement, measurement is not science.
