If you're able to help some people and make them smile and make them realize that life is good then that's worth so much more than buying a pair of shoes.

I enjoy jokes smiling and making people smile. I may be a little different but that's OK who wants to be normal anyway?

When I look out at the people and they look at me and they're smiling then I know that I'm loved. That is the time when I have no worries no problems.

Science is based on the possibility of objectivity on the possibility of different people checking out for themselves the observations made by others. Without that possibility there is no empirical principle capable of deciding between different arguments and theories.

Of course not everybody's willing to go out and do the experiments but for the people who are willing to go out and do that - if the experiments don't work then it means it's not science.

When I did 'Battlestar Galactica' it was the first time I really understood science fiction. That was a very political drama but set in spaceships so people didn't really take it seriously. But some really fascinating things were explored in that.

I finally decided one day reading science fiction magazines of the time I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.

There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons.

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.

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 natural selection.

I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

People challenge my nerd cred all the time. I just show them the photo of me winning my middle-school science fair wearing my Casio calculator watch and eyeglasses so big they look like they can see the future.

People who love science fiction really do love sex.

Life science research can be done on multiple platforms. Since we have a very small number of people flying into space the more people you have the better.

This is a global fight to get the right people in the right place and we're talking about people with PhDs in engineering computer science mathematics.

I'm chairing a UNESCO committee on how to improve global Internet communications for science help third-world people get onto the Net so they can be part of the process.

I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people.

One of the problems we've had is that the ICT curriculum in the past has been written for a subject that is changing all the time. I think that what we should have is computer science in the future - and how it fits in to the curriculum is something we need to be talking to scientists to experts in coding and to young people about.

I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.

I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.

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.

To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation and the study of creation matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture its institution and its people.

It is this at its most basic that makes science a humane pursuit it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience.