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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Samuel Butler

Art

Life

Science

I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.

Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about.

I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.

And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.

No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest.

What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a kind of science fantasy. It's a vampire story - but my vampires are biological vampires. They didn't become vampires because someone bit them; they were born that way.

The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.

So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest in science fiction came with an interest in astronomy.

Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.

Octavia Butler

Science

Fiction

The Geezer album, Black Science, had a lot of keyboards and it did not work.

Geezer Butler

Work

Science

Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.

To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit. In fact, to pursue science rightly is to furnish the framework on which the spirit may rise.

I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities.

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.