Quotes for All
I love really exploring… you know, a cop drama for example is a great way to explore class in this country and explore, you know, really, identity in the country and who we are in a way that is extremely exciting, but it’s also real, you know, it’s also real people and real drama. The … Read more
Much of good science and perhaps all of great science has its roots in fantasy. E. O. Wilson
A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam. Frederik Pohl
Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe. I don’t think there is any other function for the poet or the scientist in the human tribe but the astonishment of the soul. Derek Walcott
Reporting the consensus about climate change … is not synonymous with good science reporting. The BBC is at an important point. It has been narrow minded about climate change for many years and they have become at the very least a cliché and at worst lampooned as being predictable and biased by a public that … Read more
Remember that sign they hung up in an EPA office during the Reagan administration, No good deed goes unpunished? Under George Bush, no good science goes unpunished. David Helvarg
In really, really good science fiction the line between the science and the fiction is blurry. Damon Lindelof
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions. Claude Levi-Strauss
Basically, most good science in space flight has to do with the behavior of the human body in space. That is where we are lacking info, and where info can only be obtained by flying in space. Charles Simonyi
I am not very sceptical, — a frame of mind which I believe to be injurious to the progress of science. A good deal of scepticism in a scientific man is advisable to avoid much loss of time, but I have met with not a few men, who, I feel sure, have often thus been … Read more