Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.

The 'science' for which the United States is respected has nothing to do with the unscientific and baseless theory of evolution.

When I got my PhD it was a time when there were just no jobs for PhDs. Period. PhDs were getting the lowest paid technician jobs if they were lucky in any kind of science.

Sound science must be our guide in choosing which problems to tackle and how to approach them.

But because we live in an age of science we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.

Science fiction has its own history its own legacy of what's been done what's been superseded what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish as well as comically arrogant to ignore all this to fail to do the most basic research.

I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change and the way to deal with something you're frightened of is to make fun of it. That's why science fiction fans are dismissed as geeks and nerds.

A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

My point has always been that ever since the Industrial Revolution science fiction has been the most important genre there is.

Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.