Grades can matter, especially for those students and parents who live for the next round of applications to graduate or professional schools. But there's a problem with the grade emphasis. Math or science graduates earn more than students majoring in...
Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre.
With science fiction there's endless possibilities.
As an adult (after college) and as an artist I thought about what was real, what sustained me - it was Christian Science. I was using that when I didn't know it. Saying yes to the Light and your better instinct.
Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out.
Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.
If you're talking to a child, you're going, 'This is the wonder of science and here's why I'm so fascinated by it.'
The biggest benefit of Apollo was the inspiration it gave to a growing generation to get into science and aerospace.
As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction.
To move forward, what's required is a unified space agenda based on exploration, science, development, commerce, and security.
'Farscape' is not what you call hard science fiction.
Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; it's a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a really wonderful technical abstraction.
Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.
You don't need a science degree to understand about science. You just need to think about it.
I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting.
Science has been quite embattled. It's the most important thing there is. An arts graduate is not going to fix global warming. They may do other valuable things, but they are not going to fix the planet or cure cancer or get rid of malaria.
I actually wanted to be a doctor. But doing all those horrid rat dissections made me faint. I studied science till the 12th standard and later took up commerce. I was planning to do chartered accountancy, but fate had something else in store for me.
Science is difficult and slow no matter who you are. The hours are long, and the glorious 'aha' days come only very infrequently. You have to keep believing that if you put in the hours, those days will indeed come!
They've also asked me now to start on another series that we're gonna do after this Frontier Earth. But it's not science fiction, it's more in the Mystery and Crime division and that's another area I'm very interested in.
But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.
Oh, I'm nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I'm nerdy about board games. My favorite board game is a board game I'm working on right now. It's a game of Napoleonic era naval warfare, and it's going to be fun.
