I believe that the future of humanity is in the progress of reason through science. I believe that the pursuit of truth, through science, is the divine ideal which man should propose to himself.
Copy Quote View & ShareI graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.
Copy Quote View & ShareI'm fascinated by the business of belief, obviously, because it's so ever present with humanity anyway. And, you know, when you have science, which constantly talks of proofs, you have religion, which constantly talks of beliefs and faith and so on.
Copy Quote View & ShareScience and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
Copy Quote View & ShareI've been getting a lot of science fiction scripts which contained variations on my 'Star Trek' character and I've been turning them down. I strongly feel that the next role I do, I should not be wearing spandex.
Copy Quote View & ShareWe have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.
Copy Quote View & ShareActing is not rocket science, but it is an art form. What you are doing is illuminating humanity. Or not.
Copy Quote View & ShareFalse facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
Copy Quote View & ShareWhat are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers, Broadway or Hollywood. It's their skyscrapers. Their Pentagon. Their science. Their technology.
Copy Quote View & ShareScience fiction has always been a means for political comment. H.G. Wells' 'The War of the Worlds' wasn't about a Martian invasion - it was a critique of British colonialism, and... 'The Time Machine' is really an indictment of the British class system.
Copy Quote View & ShareWhen a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and the horse is cured of his fright at the robe, or the meal-bag, or other object, as soon as he can be induced to smell it. There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
Copy Quote View & ShareI read anything and everything. Comfort food for my brain is fantasy fiction or science fiction.
Copy Quote View & ShareI would say that molecular gastronomy is a field of science. I would - I would say that it's probably lumped under chemistry, maybe. Because cooking, while it has certainly biology and some physics, it's mostly chemistry.
Copy Quote View & ShareIt is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.
Copy Quote View & ShareI'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living.
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