“I like science fiction and physics, things like that. Planets being sucked into black holes, and the various vortexes that create possibility, and what happens on the other side of the black hole. To me it's the microcosmic study of the macrocosmic universe in man, and that's why I'm attracted to it.”
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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.”
“I do enjoy reading some science fiction.”
“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.”
“Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.”
“There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.”
“I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities.”
“Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.”
“Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.”
“Science grows like a weed every year.”
“I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that.”
“I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay's geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap.”
“Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.”
“While most of us know that we feel better after a good hearty laugh, science, in many cases, is yet to prove why.”
“The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.”
“Science is the systematic classification of experience.”
“Science is not addressed to poets.”
“Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction.”
“I've started a company, called Tall Girl Productions, and we've got our first project that is purely producing, not writing, with a writer named Evan Daugherty. It's for NBC, it's called 'Afterthought,' and it's science fiction-ish. That's fun.”
“A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets.”
“I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't.”
“If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce global greenhouse emissions, then taking action and supporting and accepting the science can hardly be the mark of incipient Bolshevism.”
“I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.”
“Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.”