If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming.
Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.
I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.
Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations.
Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
People are put off by the perception of science fiction, and it doesn't help if you've got references to quantum this and quantum that on the first page, and people think, 'This isn't for me,' and chuck it. I'm probably a pretty bad offender, given how far in the future some of my stuff is.
We're at peak oil, peak water, peak resources, and so either we figure it out and let science lead or we head down a very bad, dark trail to where a lot of people aren't going to make it.
There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.
The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.
For an object under the eye will appear very different from the same object placed above it; in an inclosed space, very different from the same in an open space.
My mom is a science teacher in high school, and one of my brothers works in optics at Bell Labs, and so I was always surrounded by it.
I've been thinking about disowning some of my genes lately. I have a few healthy, happy, long-living optimists in my family tree - most of them fans of Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy, a major champion of positive thinking. But I've got plenty of ancestors who played out more tortured hands.
We need to have making, including computer science, shop, etc. as part of the core curriculum from the beginning, not just an optional afterschool thing. Things like First Robotics and all of those great programs need to become mainstream.
Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.
The word 'universe' is obviously not intended to have a plural, but science has evolved in such a way that we need a plural noun for something similar to what we ordinarily call our universe.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Science is organized knowledge.
In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions.
Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
