I think a lot of people have an idea of virtual reality from science fiction, books and movies that have been out over the last couple of decades.

When all is said and done, science actually takes hard work and a willingness to sometimes find out that your most cherished hypothesis is wrong.

'Altered Carbon' is one of the most seminal pieces of post-cyberpunk hard science fiction out there - a dark, complex noir story that challenges our ideas of what it means to be human when all information becomes encodable, including the human mind.

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

Most great advances have been a collaboration. That is the joy of science for me.

I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange stories that at their best are dreamlike intense versions and visions of today.

I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.

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.

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.

The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature.

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.

It's kind of a misnomer about science fiction that science fiction is about anything other than people. It's about people doing stuff, sometimes doing extraordinary stuff.

The thing I love about science is finding out something new and different.

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

Hubris and science are incompatible.

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.

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.

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.

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know.

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.

Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years.

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You don't have American science versus Canadian science versus Japanese science.

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in Kenya, and when things got ugly, he went into political exile in Mexico. Then I moved back to Kenya shortly after I turned one, and I grew up in Kenya.

I'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.

I don't think the law exists to arrive at the truth. If it did, we wouldn't have exclusionary rules, we wouldn't have presumptions of innocence, we wouldn't have proof beyond reasonable doubt. There's an enormous difference between the role of truth in law and the role of truth in science. In law, truth is one among many goals.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

I wasn't with Joseph, but I believe him. My faith did not come to me through science, and I will not permit so-called science to destroy it.

To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.

There is no complete theory of anything.

The biggest benefit of Apollo was the inspiration it gave to a growing generation to get into science and aerospace.

Anyone who's promoting the exact diet that they were in previous years probably isn't keeping up with the latest science, though in general, the balance of evidence has remained remarkably consistent - centering one's diet around whole plant foods.

I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.

Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.

Although science and technology open up boundless opportunities, they also present great perils because Satan employs these marvelous discoveries to his great advantage.

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.