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We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. Thats the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We dont talk about football or anything like that. – Kevin J. Anderson

Im a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kays geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap. – Robert Ballard

Ive started a company, called Tall Girl Productions, and weve got our first project that is purely producing, not writing, with a writer named Evan Daugherty. Its for NBC, its called Afterthought, and its science fiction-ish. Thats fun. – Melissa Rosenberg

I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other peoples writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other peoples fiction. Just dont. – Laurell K. Hamilton

The thing about science fiction is that its totally wide open. But its wide open in a conditional way. – Octavia Butler

Fantasy is totally wide open all you really have to do is follow the rules youve set. But if youre writing about science, you have to first learn what youre writing about. – Octavia Butler

For a member to say, Im a lame duck violates political science 101. – Charles Rangel

With science fiction theres endless possibilities. – Anna Torv

Were looking at Earth science, observing our planet. Also space science, looking at the ozone in the atmosphere around our Earth. Also looking at life science. And on a human level, using ourselves as test subjects. – Laurel Clark

I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of ones contributions to computer science. – Donald Knuth

I think if Im going to do a science fiction, Im going to go down a new path that I want to do. – Ridley Scott

Science is an integral part of culture. Its not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. Its one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition. – Stephen Jay Gould

I dont think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized. – Stephen Jay Gould

I didnt invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is. – Patricia Cornwell

In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a failed experiment. Any test that yields valid data is a valid test. – Adam Savage

Thats the show. its like 5 minutes of science and then 10 minutes of me hurting myself. – Adam Savage

We didnt set out to be educators or even scientists, and we dont purport that what we do is real science but were demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity. – Adam Savage

In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. Its so schizophrenic. – Jonathan Carroll

Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They arent thinking about the passport that they will hold, but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement. – John Charles Polanyi

It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit it acknowledges the commonality of peoples experience. – John Charles Polanyi