That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.
Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and it must be also a story.
My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.
I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many different sciences, and historians will tell different stories corresponding to different things.
Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.
Since coming to Congress, I have been advocating for increased resources for research in the physical sciences and for the Department of Energy Office of Science in particular.
I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.
I spend time in the classroom. I think more of them aren't political science than are political science. I particularly like talking to journalism students.
Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction.
Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet.
I think the thing is with a movie that has this much science fiction in it; you need characters who are more science fact, if you know what I mean, than they are human.
I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn't leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I'd done my bit for it after about twenty-five years.
When you get back to fundamental questions - 'Why should anything exist?' A, I'm not sure what the answer is in terms of the science, and B, I'm not sure that science can even ask that question.
I've always been a science fiction fan since I had understood the conception of what a story was.
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.
