I like working closely with artists. I think that's very important in fantasy and science fiction - the visual aspect of the worlds and the characters.
I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing.
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
Science is not gadgetry.
Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.
We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
One of the reasons I did this, because I wasn't really looking for another science fiction film, was that my daughter can see it. She's 9 and it's really a good film for all ages.
I don't really see science fiction as fiction. I can imagine colonies on Mars and everything.
That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.
Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.
I think Douglas was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real science that he could make science fiction work as well as it did. And just such fun to have around, he was just such a lovely man.
In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
We are a studying nation. Scholarship from science is important to the whole world and those people need to be able to be safe and secure in what they do.
What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.