James Dyson Quotes
My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.
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I read comics and I did science, and never really put them together until I accidentally found myself in the middle of one.
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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 became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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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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Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it.
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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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I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.
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In every other science fiction series, humans are at the top of the food chain. In the 'Babylon 5' universe, they're in the bottom third.
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Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.
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I've had young women come to me and say that before they watched 'Voyager' it didn't really occur to them that they could be successful in a higher position in the field of science; girls going to MIT, girls pursuing astrophysics with a view to a career in NASA.
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Getting kids moving is a key factor in tackling obesity and health problems among the young.
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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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I don't go to church any more, but I think that Catholicism is rather like the brand they use on cattle: I feel so formed in that Catholic mould that I don't think I could adopt any other form of spirituality. I still get feelings of consolation about churches.
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My mother has an incredible rigidity, which is very Catholic.
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Transhumanism is the ethics and science of using things like biological and genetic engineering to transform our bodies and make us a more powerful species.
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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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I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.
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We have people being a little uncomfortable in their life on Earth with finances and so on, so Science Fantasy or Science Fiction allows people to think that there are possibilities beyond the gravity of our planet.
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The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.
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I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.
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I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.
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My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.
