Science almost from its beginnings has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.
They've also asked me now to start on another series that we're gonna do after this Frontier Earth. But it's not science fiction it's more in the Mystery and Crime division and that's another area I'm very interested in.
But the power of science lies in open publication which with the rise of the Internet is no longer constrained by the price of paper.
Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations in politics perhaps even in business in science only one thing matters and that is the facts.
I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.
I was on the football team because I wanted to experience the different iconic social classes of high school. So football for me was an attempt to socially integrate in an interesting way. And then I didn't like it anymore and stopped doing it and focused more on drama and science and other forms of art and music.
It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed.
We asked ourselves and the world to base decisions on good science and I really believe the United States can be the leader in delivering that message to our international trading partners.
As I have tried to show science in producing the airplane and the wireless has created a new international political environment to which governments must adjust their foreign policies.
A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat but not completely because that isn't healthy either. So one has to work it out according to one's own inclinations how one wants to proportion these things.