William James Quotes
Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.
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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.
J. J. Abrams
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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.
Randall Munroe
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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
Karl Kraus
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I've always loved massive worlds, whether in fantasy or science fiction. I like the idea of making my own rules as well as utilizing everything that I love or inspires me. It's very freeing to know you can write a story that can be as big as your own imagination.
Victoria Aveyard
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If I want to speculate wildly about the future, I have my science fiction. Anybody who tells you they can predict the future is either crazy or lying.
Karl Schroeder
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I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.
Walter Mosley
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Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.
Walter Kirn
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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.
Adam Ostrow
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I'm very interested in science.
Candice Millard
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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.
Carl Jung
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
Imogen Cunningham
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Historical fiction is actually good preparation for reading SF. Both the historical novelist and the science fiction writer are writing about worlds unlike our own.
Pamela Sargent
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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.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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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.
Randy Newman
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When it comes down to it, the reason that science fiction endures is that it is, at its core, an optimistic genre. What it says at the end of the day is that there is a tomorrow, we do go on, we don't extinguish ourselves and leave the planet to the cockroaches.
J. Michael Straczynski
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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.
Karen Joy Fowler
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Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.
Iain Banks
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The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.
Ted Cruz
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By ecology we understand the total science of the connections of the organism to the surrounding external world.
Ernst Haeckel
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A woman who is denied an education is denied equality.
Barack Obama
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If the politics of disease are to be understood, particularly in the dreadful countries where this understanding is most needed, then the politics of total collapse have to be understood first.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I believe that political power exercises itself through the mediation of a certain number of institutions which look as if they have nothing in common with the political power, and as if they are independent of it, while they are not.
Michel Foucault
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If I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine. But I would think I'll have had enough by then.
David Attenborough
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Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.
William James