Scientific Possibilities Quotes

I think it's too fast to say that all sci-fi ultimately winds up having some place in science. On the other hand, imaginative minds working outside of science as storytellers certainly have come upon ideas that, with the passing decades, have either materialized of come close to materializing.

Science can tell us what can be done in principle, but it is then a matter for public debate as to what should be done. And ultimately, it is a role for politicians to decide the answers.

It's really quite astounding to see what the science says we can actually do.

Science fiction's power, if it has any, is that it gives us reasonable extrapolations, not wild and woolly stuff.

At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years.

I work with a lot of scientists, and one of the frustrating things they find is that all this fascinating stuff is being done which doesn't find its way into science fiction. They say look at the science fact pages - they're so much more imaginative than science fiction.

We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.

Science has everything to say about what is possible. Science has nothing to say about what is permissible.