Jack Williamson Quotes
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Life would have been absolutely empty without imagination.
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It's worth exploring if it offers any potential at all to protect emergency responders or industrial workers. Without doing things like this, you'll never know where it could go.
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I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.
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"Hard" science fiction probes alternative possible futures by means of reasoned extrapolations in much the same way that good historical fiction reconstructs the probable past. Even far-out fantasy can present a significant test of human values exposed to a new environment. Deriving its most cogent ideas from the tension between permanence and change, science fiction combines the diversions of novelty with its pertinent kind of realism.
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I got involved with it and sort of discovered the story chapter by chapter as I went along.
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We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.
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That was quite an adventure, stopping at a different house each night, seeing new country,.
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You can put art experiences in different parts of the community where people who are shopping can take a break or explore an adjacent historical neighborhood unique to the city.
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[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention.
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The humanoids protect people so well they won't let them drive a car lest they have an accident or let a woman hold a needle lest she stab herself, ... With the Patriot Act, people are trying to overprotect us by taking our freedoms away. I'd repeal it if I could.
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I'm a strict materialist - but the police are brutal materialists.
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She ran away with me, and we were getting farther and farther from the wagon. So I waited for a place where there were no cat's-claws and jumped off, ... I got up crying and walked back to the wagon.
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I remember that milk fondly. We were not living too high on the hog.
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I'm afraid Dr. Mondrick chose an unfortunate publicity device. After all, the theory of human evolution is no longer front page news. Every known detail of the origin of mankind is extremely important to such a specialist as Dr. Mondrick, but it doesn't interest the man in the street - not unless it's dramatized.