It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.
We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it.
The pursuit of curiosity about the basic facts of nature has proven, with few exceptions throughout the history of medical science, to be the route by which the successful drugs and devices of modern medicine were discovered.
The most interesting character to me is someone who is stuck in the no man's land between Belief and Unbelief, Faith and Faithlessness. I'm capitalizing like a German, but it doesn't matter whether it's faith in a person or in God, or belief in science or whatever, it's the desperate in-between state that makes for interesting dramatic tension.
It should be mandatory that you understand computer science.
Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence.
There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror that to confine yourself to even doing historical revisionist fiction, whatever you want to call it - mash-ups, gimmick lit, absurdist fiction - I don't know if I want to do that anymore.
Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling.
Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.
Science has proved that everything is energy, and now they have dark energy, dark matter. They don't call it all-embracing consciousness; they call it dark because they can't measure it. You know, paint it black.
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.
Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization.
Amazingly when you add life and consciousness to the equation you can actually explain some of the biggest puzzles of science.
Science rules!
Science is organized knowledge.
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
I have this theory about science fiction movies in that, when the space race sort of died, a lot of people sort of lost hope.
And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and other kinds are secured for the future.
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.
All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class - which wasn't such a bad deal.
Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
Much of contemporary science is really the length and shadow of the technology we apply.
I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.
We are living in a science fiction world.
The Science Coalition, which grew out of an initial concept at Harvard and at MIT, has now grown to an informal group of about 60 research universities.
When I got there, all the pasta and science stuff hadn't quite caught on in England - things that were perfectly acceptable then wouldn't be tolerated now.
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.
Science is an enterprise that should be cherished as an activity of the free human mind. Because it transforms who we are, how we live, and it gives us an understanding of our place in the universe.
The Geezer album, Black Science, had a lot of keyboards and it did not work.
I am tired of all this sort of thing called science here... We have spent millions in that sort of thing for the last few years, and it is time it should be stopped.
True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.
Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.
Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science.
Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.
You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 1012 to 1.
