Science Quotes
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I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
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Hubris and science are incompatible.
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Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.
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Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.
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I was interested in nuclei originally with my deuteron photo work because that was one of the fundamental forces, and the measurement was basic to new science.
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'Fringe' is one of my favorite television shows, from its inception. I absolutely love all of the science fiction of it, the mystery of it, and the science in it.
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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
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I knew I could always work harder and be better and show I'm more prepared. I had a whole science to, like, how you have to arrive 17 minutes early to something. If you're 20 minutes early, that means you're too eager, but 17 minutes gives you time to, like, settle, sign in, use the ladies' room, have some water, and get comfortable.
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Ethical axioms are founded and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
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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.
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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
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It's not a science when you are judging art, but we'd be remiss to say you can't look at something and say, 'This is more well done than that.'
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'Alien' is a great movie. So is 'Close Encounters.' But I'm not the guy who goes out to the science-fiction festival. '2001's good.
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There are so many aspects to science that I couldn't give up – the rigor, the discoveries, the teaching. The impact that science has on the world around us is something I'm enthralled with. I don't think anyone could ever take that out of me.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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I definitely gravitate towards quality genre projects and genre of any kind whether it's science fiction, horror or really anything. I'm just drawn to quality. I don't think 'Darkness Falls' is horror; there isn't any gore by any stretch of the imagination.
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Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.
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In many ways, acting is really like a science to me to figure out the human behavior of any character that I'm playing.
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I was a bit of an introvert growing up, and I tended to do better in math and science at school, so I went with it.
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I take the view that we all have permission to be a little baffled by quantum information science and algorithmic information theory.
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Some people become passionate readers and fans of science fiction during childhood or adolescence. I picked up on SF somewhat later than that; my escape reading of choice during my youth was historical novels, and one of my favorite writers was Mary Renault.
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I would say the connection between art and science is very tenuous for me. It's just that I'm interested in both. I don't think that my interest in art affects the kind of science that I do.
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In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.
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Starting on February 1, 2010, and running through until May 30, I will be Toronto Public Library's Writer in Residence, working out of the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculation at the Lillian H. Smith branch at College and Spadina.
