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“Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.”
“One of the problems with science fiction, which is probably one of the reasons why I haven't done one for many, many years, is the fact that everything is used up. Every type of spacesuit is used u...”
“When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science. ”
“By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.”
“As much as we think of performance management as numeric and thus perfectly quantifiable, it is as much a product of context and social science as the products we design and develop.”
“Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.”
“And we should keep our minds open, or at least ajar, to concepts on the fringe of science fiction. Flaky American futurologists aren't always wrong. They remind us that a superintelligent machine i...”
“I grew up as an artist. Science fiction allows for design and creatures and guns and all the stuff that I like as well. So I think most of the films I make, I'm sure, will be in that category. But ...”
“The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in Heaven and...”
“You can't be a 21st-century science fiction writer writing about Mars without doing tips of the hat to Edgar Rice Burroughs, to Ray Bradbury, to H.G. Wells, to the guys who first put it in the publ...”
“I was always extremely creative. I was very artistic and never strong with numbers or science. I wanted to be an artist or a fashion designer. I wanted to be something that allowed for a lot of ima...”
“Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.”
“We especially need imagination in science.”
“Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride.”
“So often, science fiction helps to get young people interested in science. That's why I don't mind talking about science fiction. It has a real role to play: to seize the imagination.”
“Regrettably, with '2001' having a title that had a year in it, science fiction essentially set itself up in the public's imagination as saying, 'Here's what you get if you wait to that year.' Well,...”
“The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.”
“Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.”
“Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.”
“Reiterating the belief that HIV is the cause of AIDS is an easy thing to do. Understanding the science and politics of the situation is much more complicated and requires study with a critical and ...”
