“The thing about science fiction is that it’s totally wide open. But it’s wide open in a conditional way.”– Octavia Butler Related Quotes “Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.”– Jacob Bronowski “In short, it is not that evolutionary naturalists have been less brazen than the scientific creationists in holding science hostage, but rather that they have been infinitely more effective in getting away with it.”– Phillip E. Johnson “Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know it so it goes on flying anyway.”– Mary Kay Ash