I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.
Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years.
I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior.
I'm not just a scientist.
Steampunk is Victorian science fiction
Great men have great discipline.
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
Stephen Hawking: No... doctors. No doctors!
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
Well, when you look at a lot of science fiction novels they're asking questions about power. There are questions about what it means to have power and what are the long-term consequences of power.
But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.
All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.
Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.
I think the novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. The novel receives streams of science, philosophy, poetry and contains all of these; it's not simply telling a story.
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't need translation. It's like poetry, it touches you.
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
The romantic appeal of solar sailing has ensured that its advocates consistently come from the worlds of both science fiction and science fact.
When I was in high school, I fell under the spell of that crazy idea that if you're interested in the arts, you can't be interested in science.
