“The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.”
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“Fantasy is totally wide open all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about.”
“No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest.”
“So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest in science fiction came with an interest in astronomy.”
“I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.”
“I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.”
“One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.”
“For a member to say, 'I'm a lame duck' violates political science 101.”
“With science fiction there's endless possibilities.”
“Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre.”
“The science of life is changing hearts and minds.”
“In science there is only physics all the rest is stamp collecting.”
“Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.”
“We're looking at Earth science, observing our planet. Also space science, looking at the ozone in the atmosphere around our Earth. Also looking at life science. And on a human level, using ourselves as test subjects.”
“I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.”
“Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.”
“Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.”
“I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.”
“Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work in plant morphology and mineralogy. But he was quite bitter at the way in which many scientists refused to grant him a hearing because he was a poet and therefore, they felt, he couldn't be serious.”
“Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors.”
“Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.”
“I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.”
“Science is always inquiring.”
“In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.”