Vernor Vinge Quotes
The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.
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I will keep painting until I die.
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Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
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I will reveal the secrets behind these doors.
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Since Mashable's inception, some of our most popular articles have focused on the science behind the world's coolest innovations.
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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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Jerusalem will remain under Israeli sovereignty and will not be divided.
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Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
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He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.
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Horrible things can happen to you, and horrible things happened to us on September 11. But if we look for love and happiness and fulfillment, we will find it.
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If the home is good, all will be good.
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Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.
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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
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My creative partner is a writer, and he's got an executive producing credit on this film. We've made three films together and I would never underestimate the impact of a writer.
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We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.
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Butler's novel 'Kindred' may be the book most widely read by readers outside science fiction; it has been assigned as a text in classrooms and has sold steadily since its publication in 1979.
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Our policy on the annexation of Crimea, which we consider illegal, will stay.
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Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.
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Illinois' economy will benefit from the modernization of the power sector.
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I started out wanting to be a naturalist. My obsession in my youth was with bird-watching. I collected things, I spent a lot of time outdoors. I only vaguely realized that science was a little more than natural history, but by then I was hooked.
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The love of experiment was very strong in him [Charles Darwin], and I can remember the way he would say, "I shan't be easy till I have tried it," as if an outside force were driving him. He enjoyed experimenting much more than work which only entailed reasoning, and when he was engaged on one of his books which required argument and the marshalling of facts, he felt experimental work to be a rest or holiday.
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Describing passive violence in this culture is kinda like someone who is drowning in the middle of the ocean giving you the low-down on water. The only way you can really understand passive violence is by going somewhere far, far away from phones, news, TV, the Internet.
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Men are taught that if we are not the ultimate provider, we are a complete failure. We have to be number one in everything we do. There is nothing more delusional or paralysing than what I have just described.
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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
