“I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.”
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“A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.”
“I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.”
“I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.”
“In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.”
“It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.”
“In science, read, by preference, the newest works in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.”
“It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction, not 'Star Trek.' Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they're clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff.”
“I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.”
“The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe.”
“Science is all metaphor.”
“Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.”
“Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.”
“Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.”
“Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century.”
“Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.”
“After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.”
“Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.”
“Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.”
“I did, although I didn't read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bit of science when I was in the university so I was able to understand the graphs and pie charts and stuff like that. It was extremely dry.”
“Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.”
“There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.”
“Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.”
“However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson nothing is impossible.”