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In fantasy, impossible things exist. In science fiction, impossible things exist and can be understood by humans. In supernatural horror, impossible things exist and cannot live in peace with humans.

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

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. On being reproached that his formula of gravitation was longer and more cumbersome than Newton's.

Why then you're as mad as me. No, madder. For I distrust 'reality' and its moron mother, the universe, while you fasten your innocence to fallible devices which pretend at happy endings.

Intelligent design, unlike creationism, is a science in its own right and can stand on its own feet.

And you get Thomas Paine, who's the least religious Founding Father saying, you've got to teach creation science in the classroom. Scientific method demands that.

Science, as it reaches the public mind, has both served to discredit and unintentionally reaffirmed mystical ideas.

The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.

Farscape is not what you call hard science fiction.

I personally cannot discern a shred of evidence for '[intelligent] design.' If 97% of all creatures have gone extinct, some plan isn't working very well!

Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride.

One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.

It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher.

Science fiction shows are traditionally about the gimmick or the gadget and tend to be emotionally cool to the touch.

Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves.

The thing about a theory in science is it allows you make predictions. Evolutionary theory allows us to predict what apples will taste good next harvest.

Working in this industry, I do feel that science and creativity turned out to be a very useful combination for me.

Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it.

If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.

But while I accept specialization in the practice, I reject it utterly in the theory of science.

Oh dear, you are confusing molecular science with ancient history.

I like solving problems, and science provides a logical way of solving real-life problems.

Unfortunately, there's a lot of people in high places who understand the science but don't like where the policy leads them: too much government control.

Their minds sang with the ecstatic knowledge that either what they were doing was completely and utterly and totally impossible or that physics had a lot of catching up to do.