Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.

There's a lot of interesting words nomenclatures in science.

I developed that for a long time. I also developed 'Sugar Sweet Science' at New Line and that didn't happen. That was a boxing movie. And between all that there were a couple of other things.

Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task.

Science goes from question to question big questions and little tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader the answers are seen to be more limited.

I would love to photograph Stephen Hawking. I am just fascinated by science I really am.

Some ideas you have to chew on then roll them around a lot play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

I hope every woman out there who wants to be a mother and is suffering with infertility will explore all the options and know that if you choose the science route it is okay.

Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.

I didn't understand how you could be an actor if you didn't also study philosophy and study political science astronomy. And also just go out and live life and have experiences.

Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.

Science is a wonderful discipline to which we are deeply indebted.

Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.

The 'science' for which the United States is respected has nothing to do with the unscientific and baseless theory of evolution.

When I got my PhD it was a time when there were just no jobs for PhDs. Period. PhDs were getting the lowest paid technician jobs if they were lucky in any kind of science.

Sound science must be our guide in choosing which problems to tackle and how to approach them.

But because we live in an age of science we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.

Science fiction has its own history its own legacy of what's been done what's been superseded what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish as well as comically arrogant to ignore all this to fail to do the most basic research.

I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change and the way to deal with something you're frightened of is to make fun of it. That's why science fiction fans are dismissed as geeks and nerds.

A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

My point has always been that ever since the Industrial Revolution science fiction has been the most important genre there is.

Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.

And if we must educate our poets and artists in science we must educate our masters labour and capital in art.

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.