Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book. Robert Reed
I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism. James Cameron
I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable. Marissa Mayer
I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting. Elizabeth Moon
Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible. Sydney Smith
We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature. Arthur Eddington
One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments. Rudy Rucker
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science. Henri Bergson
My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron. Eliza Dushku
I did one sci-fi movie. I did 'Gattaca.' I liked 'Gattaca' because that was always the kind of science fiction I really dug, the non-action oriented sci-fi. Ethan Hawke
We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students. Patrick Stewart
Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it. Denis Leary
I don't really see science fiction as fiction. I can imagine colonies on Mars and everything. Sigourney Weaver
And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction. Lester B. Pearson
From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself. Talcott Parsons
My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she encouraged me to question the minister afterward. Esther Williams
I was raised on comic books, and I love science fiction. Mayim Bialik
I like science fiction and physics, things like that. Planets being sucked into black holes, and the various vortexes that create possibility, and what happens on the other side of the black hole. To me it's the microcosmic study of the macrocosmic universe in man, and that's why I'm attracted to it. Wesley Snipes
Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all. Edmund Husserl
I do enjoy reading some science fiction. Colin Farrell