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.