“To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people.”
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“Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction.”
“Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.”
“I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.”
“You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America.”
“Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have been no valuable additions of domestic animals in recent times, despite the efforts of modern science.”
“Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years.”
“We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.”
“He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual?”
“I shopped at J. Crew in high school, I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd, now I'm a music-nerd.”
“It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.”
“Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real.”
“There's a new science out called orthomolecular medicine. You correct the chemical imbalance with amino acids and vitamins and minerals that are naturally in the body.”
“In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.”
“The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.”
“And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.”
“Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.”
“My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.”
“A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.”
“I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change, and the way to deal with something you're frightened of is to make fun of it. That's why science fiction fans are dismissed as geeks and nerds.”
“Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.”
“But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.”
“When I got my PhD, it was a time when there were just no jobs for PhDs. Period. PhDs were getting the lowest paid technician jobs, if they were lucky, in any kind of science.”
“The 'science' for which the United States is respected has nothing to do with the unscientific and baseless theory of evolution.”