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Cheap Thoughts (1747 words) |
 | Science is uniquely distinguished from other human practices: it is the only activity in which the constraints of reality have brought to the quest for deep answers an effective consensus across all the variations that in other respects divide the human species. |
| Science is built upon facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science that a heap of stones is a house. |
| Science is based on experiment, on a willingness to challenge old dogma, on an openness to see the universe as it really is. Accordingly, science sometimes requires courage at the very least the courage to question the conventional wisdom. |
| Science Fiction - MSN Encarta (906 words) |
| Science and technology began appearing as a subject of fiction in the 19th century. |
| Wells began to write stories with science themes in 1894, demonstrating more interest in biology and evolution than in other sciences, and more concern about the social consequences of invention than about the accuracy of the invention itself. |
| Most early science fiction was published in magazines and aimed at a readership of boys and young men. |
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