I have seen the science I worshiped and the aircraft I loved destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.

It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction not 'Star Trek.' Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they're clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff.

In science read by preference the newest works in literature the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.

It is through science that we prove but through intuition that we discover.

That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.

The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction.

In science we must be interested in things not in persons.

I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother my aunt my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.

I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.

A powerful attraction exists therefore to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.