William Kenneth Hartmann Quotes
One thing they don't tell you about doing experimental physics is that sometimes you must work under adverse conditions... like a state of sheer terror.
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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.
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Sometimes you've got to know when it's time to leave the party.
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Sea ice conditions have remained stable in Antarctica generally.
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Eliza Factor's first novel, 'The Mercury Fountain,' explores what happens when a life driven by ideology confronts implacable truths of science and human nature. It also shows how leaders can inflict damage by neglecting the real needs of real people.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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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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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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For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.
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Sometimes, when you watch people play a video game, they seem lost in this wormhole, or in a trance.
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God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there.
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Knots Landing is the best thing that ever happened to me.
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The cool thing for me is, I go to a lot of conventions - a lot of science fiction conventions like Comic-Con - and there are always a lot of attendants of color. And I think some people believe that black people or people of color are not into science fiction or hero shows or genre shows.
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It's easy to focus on the things that divide us. Sometimes too easy.
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Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we be - for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world.
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I think sometimes you are born with a song.
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From the age of 11, I was cleaning floors, washing dishes, making sandwiches and being a cashier. Survival was the name of the game. Life was so hard that I had to struggle to keep up my standards. Under these conditions, I didn't think about science too much.
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Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.
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Sometimes, if I allow time to be creative, it doesn't show up.
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Science grows and Beauty dwindles.
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Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.
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Let's hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American.
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FAITH is the element, the “chemical” which, when mixed with prayer, gives one direct communication with Infinite Intelligence.
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3 Doors Down asked us if we could fill in for them, and we are very happy that we were able to rearrange our schedule to do the show. We apologize to our fans in Portland, but we will be back on the 22nd, and we ask for everyone's understanding. Our thoughts and prayers are with Brad, and we send our best wishes to him for a speedy and complete recovery.
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One thing they don't tell you about doing experimental physics is that sometimes you must work under adverse conditions... like a state of sheer terror.
