Richard Feynman Quotes
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I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.
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Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.
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As a senior editor at Tor Books and the manager of our science fiction and fantasy line, I rarely blog to promote specific projects I'm involved with, for reasons that probably don't need a lot of explanation.
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I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating.
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Technology is incredibly powerful. And in many ways, the sky is the limit in terms of what you can actually accomplish with the right science and the right technology. But to get there, you have to actually invest in R&D. And often that means you have to be willing to spend an awful lot in that R&D phase before you see the benefits.
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We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.
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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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Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.
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When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.
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At Swarthmore, the Dean of Women was very opposed to women going into science or engineering - so opposed that if she couldn't talk a girl out of it, she just never had anything more to do with her for the four years she was there.
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But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.
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There are three stages in this journey that I have been on. The first. the social science stage; the second, the psychedelic stage; and the third, the yogi stage.
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It is absolutely vital to hold it as lightly as possible - rather as one might pick up a newborn bird.
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I am not to blame for putting forward, in the course of my work on science, any general rule derived from a previous conclusion.
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The method of viewing things which proceeds in accordance with the principle of sufficient reason is the rational method, and it alone is valid and of use in practical life and in science. The method which looks away from the content of this principle is the method of genius, which is only valid and of use in art.
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It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.
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It's not rocket science to make a movie.
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I'm not into superhero movies, but I love cartoons. Tweety bird is my favourite.
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There are no enemies in science, professor. Only phenomena to study.
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The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn't because of some goodness intrinsic to democracy, but because its hopeless inefficiency helps blunt the basic potential for evil.
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My strength is in my ability to be versatile.
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Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
