I don't watch that much TV, so I can't compare one show to another. When I watch television, I watch people talking to one another usually or a science show where they show me microbes, you know. Microbes actually communicate quite a bit, and so ther...
I used to read science fiction a lot, and I still like science fiction when it is a model of how we really are and to see ourselves from another perspective.
Whenever I think of how much pleasure I have interviewing scientists, I remember that they're having the real fun in actually being able to do the science.
The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought and perhaps defeated.
Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense.
Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.
There's a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science.
Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist, the only difference between a living and a dead body is that in the one case that force is active, in the other lat...
The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anythin...
I think if I did do something in another genre, it would be science fiction; I'm a big sci fi nerd.
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
Indeed, every true science has for its object the determination of certain phenomena by means of others, in accordance with the relations which exist between them.
Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.
I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football.
I think we're all fascinated and a little mystified by how the brain works. One of the most mysterious of the physical sciences is neurological science.
All of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses.
Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it was a perversion of science.
I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
