Ahmed H. Zewail Quotes
There is a danger one has to really be knowing much more because you can't be too narrow on science.
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I've finished 12th standard from Poddar International and enrolled for B.A. in political science in Cambridge University, London. It's a correspondence course, and I'll go to London for my exams once a year. That way, I can devote more time to films.
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My childhood and adolescence were filled with visiting scientists from both India and abroad, many of whom would stay with us. A life of science struck me as being both interesting and particularly international in its character.
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I've always been fascinated by the brain. I wrote a lot about brain-tech in my first non-fiction book, 'More Than Human.' So when I decided to write science fiction, that was the technology I gravitated towards.
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I love science fiction.
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Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.
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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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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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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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What science fiction does is take what might be possible someday and examine what might happen if it were - the drawbacks and the positive things.
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'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'
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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
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If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph of human thought has been matched or surpassed by 'mere machines,' there will still be thinkers who insist that the human mind works in mysterious ways that no science can comprehend.
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Back when the concept of organ transplants qualified as science fiction, novelist Maurice Renard wrote a thriller called 'Les Mains d'Orlac.' Call it a bastard offspring of 'Frankenstein;' its plot revolved around the old theme of Science Giving Us Stuff We Shouldn't Have - in this particular case, restoring severed body parts.
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Art is something absolute, something positive, which gives power just as food gives power. While creative science is a mental food, art is the satisfaction of the soul.
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The constant questioning of our values and achievements is a challenge without which neither science nor society can remain healthy.
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Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance.
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Science, for hundreds of years, has spanned the differences between cultures and between countries.
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I am tired of all this thing called science here. We have spent millions in that sort of thing for the last few years, and it is time it should be stopped.
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I have this sensation of being in flight all the time, but being on stage is like creating a sanctuary in which you can completely lose yourself. The bits of your personality that you keep under wraps in ordinary life, you can let them run free.
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I think the public perception of what is acceptable and what is not acceptable has changed. Everybody has to be politically correct.
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I love working with the actors eye-to-eye. I think something gets lost in translation, not only through a monitor, but when you leave the area where the actual scene is taking place.
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There is a danger one has to really be knowing much more because you can't be too narrow on science.
