“We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.”
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“Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe.”
“That said, ID does not qualify as science because it gives us nothing to test or measure. Science requires replicable tests involving measurable variables.”
“Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin.”
“I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research.”
“It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be ascribed to natural selection, and therefore were designed. But we must deal with our shock as best we can and go on.”
“I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.”
“It is often said that science must avoid any conclusions which smack of the supernatural.”
“Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history.”
“It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection.”
“I'm not a great science fiction fan myself. I probably feel that way about Westerns. Like I used to play Cowboys and Indians, they can act out Will and the Robot.”
“Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted.”
“The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.”
“Science is a self-sufficient activity.”
“The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world.”
“In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.”
“There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.”
“Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam... and I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases.”
“Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.”
“But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.”
“Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it was a perversion of science.”
“Questions have arisen about the policing of science. Who is responsible for the policing? My answer is: all of us.”
“Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies.”
“I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.”