"A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective."

"The science of today is the technology of tomorrow."

"Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth."

"The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality."

"And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction."

"I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph."