To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'
I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.
I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy.
The process of science is difficult and challenging. It involves always being aware that your ideas might be right or they might be wrong. I think it's that kind of balance that makes science so interesting.
If I may take the liberty to speak for science at least, today his name and his prizes are without a peer in the world. He not only elevates science but he influences it as well.
Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over world-building.
I actually consider myself as totally privileged to be able to serve science and medicine in a global fashion, because science and medicine know no boundaries.
There's no one 'right' way of making a science fiction movie; there's no one way of making any kind of movie, really!
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.
Modern science tells us that the conscious self arises from a purely physical brain. We do not have immaterial souls.
Science fiction is about worlds you don't know and worlds you can create, like in 'Avatar'.
Science - or the products of science like technology - is just a way of achieving something real, something that happens, something that works.
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
If there is no fundamental science then there is no basis for applied science. We have to strike a balance. 23 years ago the World Wide Web was born here. It has changed the world dramatically.
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.
The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing about science.
I'm big on the importance of science, particularly right now at this point in time when there's sort of a systematic rejection of science by a lot of people in America.
I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.
I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.
! want to leverage the creativity of researchers across mathematics, statistics, data mining, computer science, biology, medicine, and the public at large.
