3 December 2020 Ivan Reitman I’ve always been a fan of science fiction films, and I’ve never been able to put my particular spin on it.
3 December 2020 Sarah Zettel 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.
3 December 2020 William Irwin Thompson The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.
3 December 2020 Octavia Butler The thing about science fiction is that it’s totally wide open. But it’s wide open in a conditional way.
3 December 2020 Mikhail Bakunin Thence results, for science as well as for industry, the necessity of the division and association of labor. I receive and I give – such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn.
3 December 2020 Mark Haddon Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.
3 December 2020 Donald Knuth Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
3 December 2020 Carl Jung We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
3 December 2020 Eliza Dushku My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron.
3 December 2020 Edward de Bono The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.
3 December 2020 Laurell K. Hamilton 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.
3 December 2020 Cleveland Abbe True science is never speculative it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.
3 December 2020 Michelangelo Antonioni I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn’t advanced as far as science.
3 December 2020 Daniel H. Wilson As a kid I wanted to write science fiction, and I was never without a book. Later I really got into being a scientist and never thought I’d be writing novels.
3 December 2020 Samuel Butler The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
3 December 2020 Walter Lippmann The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief… that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
3 December 2020 Frank Luntz Sound science must be our guide in choosing which problems to tackle and how to approach them.
3 December 2020 Margaret J. Wheatley We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.
3 December 2020 Octavia Butler 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.
3 December 2020 Jean M. Auel My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other journals, including some usually devoted to archaeological and other science material.
3 December 2020 Isaac Asimov Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
3 December 2020 Max Planck Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.
3 December 2020 Ulrich Beck Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.
3 December 2020 Vince Cable Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain’s scientific competitiveness.
3 December 2020 Bill Nye When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It’s like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now when was then?
