Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.

There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.

But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who took an interest in me and presented me with a key to the laboratory to allow me to work whenever I wanted.

My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand.

However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute.

I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology.

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

Divinity is an emotion of being lifted out of yourself and being part of something much bigger than yourself that makes you go, 'Oh my God.' And that sense of awe? It's the second rule of science.

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.

Hubris and science are incompatible.

There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.

I think a big part of our attraction to sport movies are the stories contained within the sports.

Never set limits, go after your dreams, don't be afraid to push the boundaries. And laugh a lot - it's good for you!

There's always going to be somebody who takes a dislike to you and you can't waste time worrying about it.

You see, with me, when I'm nervous, I smile and laugh.

Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.

The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.

The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant.

I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring.

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.

Many men of science and poets have in their own manner, by various ways and means, and aided by others, sought unceasingly to create a more tolerable world for everyone.

Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.

In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to whom the idea first occurs.

There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.

Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and it must be also a story.

We slow the progress of science today for all sorts of ethical reasons. Biomedicine could advance much faster if we abolished our rules on human experimentation in clinical trials, as Nazi researchers did.

Leave the atom alone.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.

This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.

Were there no women, men might live like gods.

Honest labor bears a lovely face.

I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.

I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.

The clothes that I design and everything I've done is about life and how people live and how they want to live and how they dream they'll live. That's what I do.

Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision. Both are part of something I believe is absolutely necessary to building the life of a champion, a winner, a person of high character who is consistently at the top of whatever game he or she is in.

Always, through my whole life, I've had a thirst for knowledge.

I was going through a little bit of turbulence in my career. And so, it's funny how turbulence itself will make you hold onto something for security. And so the only thing I knew is trust in the Lord and lean not unto your own heart, in all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy path.

As a former football player who has carried a football more than 4,000 times, trust me, I did not go into ballroom dancing with my body being 100 percent, with no aches or pains or ailments coming with me. When you're dancing, you're doing stuff that your body's not used to, and so you start to aggravate those old injuries.

My mom said, 'Don't get married. You're too young. Go out there and experience what life has to offer.' And I did.

I've learned that football sometimes was an outlet. It was a way for me to release anger, release frustration.

Don't let your dreams be dreams.

Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.

My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it.

I have always loved science fiction. One of my favorite shows is 'Star Trek.' I like the trips, where it drops my mind off, because they give you a premise and all of a sudden, you say, 'Oh!' and I'm fascinated by it.

I don't want to give advice to people about their religious beliefs, but I do think that it's not smart to bet against the power of science to figure out the natural world. It used to be, a thousand years ago, that if you wanted to explain why the moon moved through the sky, you needed to invoke God.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.