The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I get a sense that we've all been educated into one school of thought. I'm not surprised at all to find among the overwhelming majority of scientists, are people who would hold one particular view because that's all they're exposed to.
People don't generally listen to scientists much.
Many fiction writers who put the science in don't get it right.
The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking.
A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.
A lot of scientists act on their beliefs and so do things that look crazy to the rest of us.
Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride.
I've probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I've also read more good science fiction than anyone else alive.
One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
My feeling is that science is virtually an unexplored ground. It's very visible - more so all the time - but there's no fiction that tells us how scientists think, and they really don't think the way that other people do.