Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.
The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.
Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves.
A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That label enabled mainstream science fiction to safely assimilate our dissident influence, such as it was. Cyberpunk could then be embraced and gi...
I didn't have a manifesto. I had some discontent. It seemed to me that midcentury mainstream American science fiction had often been triumphalist and militaristic, a sort of folk propaganda for American exceptionalism.
Science fiction was one of those places, particularly during the McCarthy era, where you could write whatever you wanted because it was beneath contempt. They didn't bother censoring it.
Whenever I read a contemporary literary novel that describes the world we're living in, I wait for the science fiction tools to come out. Because they have to - the material demands it.
I can't do fiction unless I visualize what's going on. When I began to write science fiction, one of the things I found lacking in it was visual specificity. It seemed there was a lot of lazy imagining, a lot of shorthand.
I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.
Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes.
The violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one realises that here the foundations of physics have started moving; and that this motion has caused the feeling that the ground would be cut from science.
The tension between public and private science is powerful.
Man lives for science as well as bread.
There is no question that Taiwan is a state in any political science definition of a state.
I can't think of any relatives that ever went into science.
Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable.
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts.
It should be mandatory that you understand computer science.
I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.
The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it.
