Hollywood Science/Quotes

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"Every time you bring real-world physics into Hollywood, God kills a Catgirl. So please, think of the catgirls."
Anonymous
"Of course! Don't you know anything about science?"

Such ignorance would never be permitted in any field outside science. Any program which referred to the British Queen as Isabella would hear it at once from a billion ignorant citizens- yet a royal name is trivial, and scientific knowledge is the key to the salvation or destruction of the world. Are we to fill the minds of the audience with garbage because the producers of a television show are too haughty to hire a science consultant or too foolish to listen to him once hired?

Isaac Asimov, writing about Space: 1999 in "An Expert's Verdict: 'Trek' Wins", Cue magazine, 1975