Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been... →
Nancy Reagan
Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of... →
Robert Reed
I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.
Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just 'virtual... →
Martin Rees
Manufacturing doesn't just mean building cars and metal-bashing; it includes making pharmaceuticals and hi-tech electronics. A crucial part of... →
Maybe the search for life shouldn't restrict attention to planets like Earth. Science fiction writers have other ideas: balloon-like creatures... →
Scientists habitually moan that the public doesn't understand them. But they complain too much: public ignorance isn't peculiar to science.... →
We should all oppose - as Darwin did - views manifestly in conflict with the evidence, such as creationism... But we shouldn't set up this debate... →
Everything, however complicated - breaking waves, migrating birds, and tropical forests - is made of atoms and obeys the equations of quantum... →
The scientific community should work as hard as possible to address major issues that affect our everyday lives such as climate change, infectious... →