As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
I would say keep supporting space flight, keep telling the public and the politicians why it's important to advance science and explore the galaxy. I encourage the Japanese to keep doing what they're doing.
Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.
The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.
When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.
Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question "How?" but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question "Why?"
Indeed, I would feel that an appreciation of the arts in a conscious, disciplined way might help one to do science better.
I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it.
Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.
The development of physics, like the development of any science, is a continuous one.
The whole structure of science gradually grows, but only as it is built upon a firm foundation of past research.
I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the most important topics in cognitive science as a whole, but it had been surprisingly neglected in recent years.
Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out there for science to come to grips with.
I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects.