But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high school students study the critical foreign languages of Arabic, Chin…
Today, over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue these schools.
We need to tap the resource of current and retiring science and math professionals that have both content mastery and the practical experience to serve as effective teachers.
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 indulgen…
Questions have arisen about the policing of science. Who is responsible for the policing? My answer is: all of us.
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.
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The proper study of mankind is the science of design.
One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it.
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.
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.
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…
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…
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.
The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world.
Science is a self-sufficient activity.
The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.
Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted.
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.
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 n…
Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history.
It is often said that science must avoid any conclusions which smack of the supernatural.
I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.
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 desig…