Iain Banks | science
A lot of what the ‘Culture’ is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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Iain Banks | science
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.
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Iain Banks | science
Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what’s been done, what’s been superseded, what’s so much part of the furniture it’s practically part of the fabric now, what’s become no more than a joke… and so on.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.
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John B. S. Haldane | science
And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.
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Iain Banks | science
My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.
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Michael Pollan | science
The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.
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John B. S. Haldane | science
Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.
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Phillip E. Johnson | science
Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real.
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