In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth," the long out-of-print science fiction writer went on.
Laws are important and valuable in the exact natural sciences, in the measure that those sciences are universally valid.
I've always been a fan of science fiction. My family, we all used to watch 'Star Trek' together, which is kind of a nerdy family activity.
Through basic science literacy, people can understand the policy choices we need to be making. Scientists are not necessarily the greatest communicators, but science and communication is one of the fundamentals we need to address. People are interest...
I'm interested in the hope we invest in science, and the disappointment we can feel when science flattens, or 'explains,' the larger mysteries of religion.
Humor is rare in science fiction... there's so little of it that it automatically reminds you of other heroes with that acerbic humor when you find it.
I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.
And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.
In the state of Wisconsin it's mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education by the first grade, through high school.
Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.
I'm not really a science-fiction fan, I quite like the idea of getting away from the science-fiction side of it, for two episodes. It was lovely, it was a super story and great fun.
Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of root in the abstract.
I like the Sci Fi channel and 'Science Fiction Theatre.' I've been doing a lot of television-watching and thinking about good songs to write.
There is an idea that a mind is wasted on the arts unless it makes you good in math or science. There is some evidence that the arts might help you in math and science.
We have people being a little uncomfortable in their life on Earth with finances and so on, so Science Fantasy or Science Fiction allows people to think that there are possibilities beyond the gravity of our planet.
A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life.
I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.
Unless social sciences can be as creative as natural science, our new tools are not likely to be of much use to us.
The most visceral science fiction always takes place in the past and focuses on the humdrum
Those who are ignorant of science fiction movie tropes are condemned to play imperial stormtroopers.
Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride.
