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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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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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 is international but its success is based on institutions, which are owned by nations. If therefore, we wish to promote culture we have to combine and to organize institutions with our own power and means.
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We're looking at Earth science, observing our planet. Also space science, looking at the ozone in the atmosphere around our Earth. Also looking at life science. And on a human level, using ourselves as test subjects.
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I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
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Science fiction I've always been a fan of.
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All that can really be said is that at some indeterminate point in the very distant past, for reasons unknown, there came the moment known to science as t = 0. We were on our way.
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I have no expectations. Not in a bad way, but I've learned that you can't plan ahead. I live day by day and see what happens.
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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.
