Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth.
Margaret Atwood
My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.
Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It's a question of how those tools are used by people.
Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.
Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways... →
Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.
I love the fact that it's not only about Star Trek, but about science fiction in general, and science.
Rene Auberjonois
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.
W. H. Auden
'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'