I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.

Psychology is the science of the intellects characters and behavior of animals including man.

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors.

Goethe died in 1832. As you know Goethe was very active in science. In fact he did some very good scientific work in plant morphology and mineralogy. But he was quite bitter at the way in which many scientists refused to grant him a hearing because he was a poet and therefore they felt he couldn't be serious.

I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However science used to be much less specialized.

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

I think if I'm going to do a science fiction I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.

People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite just many people doing things that build on eachother like a wall of mini stones.

I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.