We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.

To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.

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

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.

I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.

Growing up in the ’70s and ’80s, science fiction and especially fantasy had such a stigma attached to them. I felt so punished and exiled for being devoted to these things.

Economics has never been a science – and it is even less now than a few years ago.

This is a global fight to get the right people in the right place and we’re talking about people with PhDs in engineering, computer science, mathematics.