As a microbiologist, I am particularly concerned with Mr. Bush's blatant disregard for science.
I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.
Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.
I've been getting a lot of science fiction scripts which contained variations on my Star Trek character and I've been turning them down. I strongly feel that the next role I do, I should not be wearing spandex.
The proper study of mankind is the science of design.
One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it.
But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.
Jerry reversed the usual formula of the superhero who goes to another planet. He put the superhero in ordinary, familiar surroundings, instead of the other way around, as was done in most science fiction. That was the first time I can recall that it had ever been done.
Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.
Penn State is a leader in food science.
Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training.
But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.
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.
But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.
Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.