I think it's too fast to say that all sci-fi ultimately winds up having some place in science. On the other hand, imaginative minds working outside of science as storytellers certainly have come upon ideas that, with the passing decades, have either ...
The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge.
Science is a self-correcting discipline that can, in subsequent generations, show that previous ideas were not correct.
I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
Modern science is predicated on 'truths' verified through accurate observation and measurements of physical world phenomena.
For science, the end of the evolution struggle is simply represented by 'survival.' As for the means to that end, apparently anything goes. Darwinism leaves humanity without a moral compass.
I'm basically a dinosaur. I don't use e-mail. But I do recognize the importance of science and the resulting possibilities.
Babylon 5 is probably the biggest, most ambitious television science fiction series ever made. It's one big novel told over five years with 110 different stories told within it.
Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.
Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
There's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.
Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.
We talk about the Internet. That comes from science. Weather forecasting. That comes from science. The main idea in all of biology is evolution. To not teach it to our young people is wrong.
After I had this idea to be Bill Nye the Science Guy, I wore straight ties the first couple times, and then I got this thing going and I started wearing bow ties.
I always liked show biz and got to make a few training films at Boeing. Soon after, I got the idea of a science show geared toward kids, around ages 8 through 12.
Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.
Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
An inborn tendency toward science turning it into a lifelong commitment.
Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old facilities. Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.
What is needed is an all-out science project to get vehicles off of gasoline, rather than off of the earth.
