I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.
Contrary to popular belief, I don't just play dreadful old villains.
There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition of myth as falsehood.
When you decide to adapt some Russian novel, it's like everyone knows about it but nobody has read it.
There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.
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.
Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.
If you can identify a delusional popular belief, you can find what lies hidden behind it: the contrarian truth.
I think people have this sort of idea that 'Sex and the City' was this overnight sensation, and that can't be farther from the truth.
Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say.
The general public still thinks that science fiction has nothing to do with their day-to-day lives.
