One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.
Rudy Rucker
Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.
Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.
In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.
Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.
I can say, 'Well, I'm a male. I'm a male human. I'm a medical doctor. I'm an author...' If I go to a religious point of view... →
Miguel Angel Ruiz
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
John Ruskin
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
Bertrand Russell
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs... →