I've never thought of acting as rocket science - you put on the costume, get your hair cut, and that's it, really.
Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can't be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.
In consequence, science is more important than ever for industrial technology.
Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction.
Science fiction is a literary field crowded with strong opinions, and no SF novelist delivered himself more memorably of his views - on politics, sexuality, religion, and many other contentious topics - than Robert Heinlein.
We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.
I do not practice clinical medicine and hence do not treat individual patients. My career is in medical science.
The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.
Moonshots live in that place between audacious projects and pure science fiction.
It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
I still meet old-school scientists who are like, 'Oh honey, women aren't good at science.' You kind of dismiss them as insane.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.
Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.
In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.
Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and I was playing in what I call social psychology, which is sort of an offshoot of anthropology/sociology - looking at a culture as a living organism, why it does what it does.
The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.
My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became a science fiction writer.
I was a catastrophe at Science and Games, but the good thing about Quaker schools is that they encourage you in those subjects for which you show an aptitude.
It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.
Science fiction sometimes is fun because it reaches so far in the future.
Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.
I love the Victorian era, and I always have, but I had a leg up on the writing because I was familiar with a lot of the science from the Victorian era. And that led to a massive interest in the science of this time of history.
Whether that coherence obtains universally is a question that need not be answered here since only those parts where the coherence has actually been found become part of Science.
We take art, and I love all that. But I also like science for some reason. I just like finding out why things happen.
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
On the pro-vaccine side - and not everyone does this, but I saw it enough for it to make me really uncomfortable - is a tendency to accuse people who are wary of vaccination of being stupid and not understanding science.
Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all.
It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience.
One of the most interesting things about science fiction and fantasy is the way that the genres can offer different perspectives on matters to do with the body, the mind, medical technology, and the way we live our lives.
I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue.
Intelligence is not a science.
I feel like every time a door is opened by science, suddenly there are a hundred doors that need to get opened. That's what makes it an everlasting, interesting experience to go through.
Science and the many benefits that science has produced have played a crucial part in our history and produced vast improvements to human welfare.
