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.

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.

I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable.

I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.

Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.

We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

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.

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.