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A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction. -- Frederik Pohl
I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time. -- Octavia Butler
The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science. -- Samuel Butler
American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France. -- Suzanne Fields
Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, 'The Martian Chronicles.' -- Ray Bradbury
I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small. -- Peter Ackroyd
Historical fiction is actually good preparation for reading SF. Both the historical novelist and the science fiction writer are writing about worlds unlike our own. -- Pamela Sargent
Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great). -- Frederik Pohl
I didn't read comic books, growing up. I was more of a science fiction/fantasy novel guy. I loved reading Edgar Rice Burroughs' 'Tarzan' and that kind of stuff. -- Jesse L. Martin
I love travelling and going on wildlife safaris. I have an interest in astronomy. I like reading on current affairs, business and science. I love doing nothing if I can help it. -- Viswanathan Anand
I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet. -- Joan Jett
Especially, I think, living in any fantasy or science fiction world means really understanding what you're seeing and reading really densely on a level that a lot of people don't bother to read. -- Joss Whedon
I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; I make no pretensions otherwise. It's the stuff that I love writing about. I like creating worlds. -- David S. Goyer
Oh, I'm nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I'm nerdy about board games. My favorite board game is a board game I'm working on right now. It's a game of Napoleonic era naval warfare, and it's going to be fun. -- Billy Campbell
My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect them with reading that interests them, to expand the definition of reading to include humor, science fiction/fantasy, nonfiction, graphic novels, wordless books, audio books and comic books. -- Jon Scieszka
I never had a favourite book! I liked all kinds of things - science fiction, so I read Heinlen and Ray Bradbury, and I also liked reading about kids like myself, so I read Judy Blume and Norma Klein and Paula Danzinger and a lot of other writers. I also read James Herriot! -- Rebecca Stead
I didn't study science beyond high school level, but I'd been reading a lot of science books by people like Richard Dawkins, Matt Ridley and Daniel Dennett. I also spent a year working on a fellowship in a research centre - the Allan Wilson Centre - where I got a hands-on look at their work sequencing DNA. -- Bernard Beckett
When I was thirteen, I was in a supermarket with my mother, and for no reason at all, I picked up a science-fiction book at the checkout stand and started reading it. I couldn't believe I was doing that, actually reading a book. And, man, it opened up a whole new thing. Reading became the sparkplug of my imagination. -- Mark Bradford
I appreciate and enjoy mathematics and science and all that side of things. I definitely have that side of me even though I'm not by any means an expert, but I love reading about physics and math and that kind of stuff. I wish I knew more than I did. I mean, I read books written for laymen, not textbooks or anything. -- Chris Parnell
I do enjoy reading some science fiction. -- Colin Farrell
The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading. -- Tom Baker
I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience. -- William Mapother
I don't remember learning to read, but the first thing I remember reading is a science fiction novel. -- Vonda N. McIntyre
In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself. -- C. S. Lewis
Christians think a long record of church attendence and Bible reading is equivalent to an advanced degree in science. -- Graham Kendall
I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading. -- Thomas Jefferson
A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens. -- Iain Banks
[I] browsed far outside science in my reading and attended public lectures - Bertrand Russell, H. G. Wells, Huxley, and Shaw being my favorite speakers. -- Raymond Cattell
As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography. -- Norman Spinrad
I think anything that opens my mind and triggers my imagination I'm reading. I like to read science fiction and imagine the character. Anything that keeps my imagination flowing. -- Nicolas Cage
Creation stories had never been regarded as historically accurate; their purpose was therapeutic. But once you start reading Genesis as scientifically valid, you have bad science and bad religion. -- Karen Armstrong

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