Once you have extrapolated the effects a particular science will have on society - cheap clean energy, rejuvenation - the political impact is quite easy to predict. The two are twinned.

Space opera has always given authors a way to include a vast array of ideas and concepts. The opportunities it provides are limitless. Long may it reign.

We spend most of our lives in relationships or bringing up children which are a product of relationships.

If you've enjoyed 'Battlestar Galactica', you should love my stuff.

Thanks to the fact that the Earth isn't a perfect sphere, and invoking a bunch of Newtonian physics, you can deduce that our planet wobbles, too, taking roughly 26,000 years to trace out a small circle on the sky, a phenomenon known as precession.

Science can and should inform debate about abortion and the law. But science does not resolve questions of moral value and moral choice.

In the snobbery of science, each branch attempts to rise in the social scale by imitating the methods of the next higher science and by ignoring the methods and phenomena of the sciences beneath.

I consider early childhood events as most essential to a man's scientific and philosophical development.