In this time of budget cuts we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.

Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science the way you had to be in England in the 17th 18th centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can and the information that they need to do it is there.

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.

Even in our day science suspects beyond the Polar seas at the very circle of the Arctic Pole the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green.

I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.

The Geezer album Black Science had a lot of keyboards and it did not work.

I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I'm trying to pull out of the ground that doesn't want to come out? I know I'll win.

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.

I could write historical fiction or science fiction or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that I will probably continue to do it.

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

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.

I quite enjoy science fiction.

I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas and I like that definition but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part.

Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period.

Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics.

Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side you know.

Of the two I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy.

We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war which have been evolved in the minutest detail.

I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time since I was 11 or 12 I think so I understand it and I'm not at all surprised that readers of the genre might enjoy my books.

Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe.

But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods.

I had never seen much of Star Trek or any other science fiction before I was cast. But Seven's wonderful.

I dig science fiction though it was never really my thing.