I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.

In the forensic science course I took at university they used photographs of dead bodies. For ballistics they showed us a guy lying on the floor, and his head had burst.

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.

I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.

But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.

Winning is the science of being totally prepared.

I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.

And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.

I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.

The origin of life is one of the great outstanding mysteries of science.