Neil Gershenfeld Quotes
Computer science is one of the worst things that ever happened to either computers or to science.

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I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.
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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
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A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.
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We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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I majored in political science and English, but starting from the age of 17, I've paid for everything that I've had in my life. It was a personal choice. My parents would have helped me in any way whatsoever, but for me, you know what? I can make my own way.
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The California Science Center is a cornerstone in California's push to educate and encourage students to reach their full potential and to pursue careers in science and engineering.
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I like to look for patterns in science and life. It's what I do.
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Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet.
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There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
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We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.
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Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.
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I was a good student with mathematical ability and interests. As such, I took the usual college preparatory program in high school for one looking to become an engineer: all the available courses in mathematics and science.
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So I decided on science when I was in college.
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I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of science and math. One of the answers to that problem is to use more educational technology.
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Octavia Butler often described herself as an outsider, but within science fiction, she was loved as an insider, someone who was a fan first and came to S.F. writing as an enthusiastic reader.
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.
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Moonshots live in that place between audacious projects and pure science fiction.
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These creators, makers of the new, can never become obsolete, for in the arts there is no correct answer. The story of discoverers could be told in simple chronological order, since the latest science replaces what went before. But the arts are another story - a story of infinite addition. We must find order in the random flexings of the imagination.
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For me there’s no good or bad, as long as I’m feeling everything to the greatest degree, whether it’s sadness or happiness.
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What is terrifying is the ability, through mass brainwashing or propaganda, to change normal human instinct, which does not necessarily contain very much hatred.
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I believe I made it in show business.
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Computer science is one of the worst things that ever happened to either computers or to science.