Jacob Bronowski Quotes
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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 started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.
Ted Chiang
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Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
E. T. Bell
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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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Tokyo in the late 1960s seemed to be like one of the futures that science fiction presents. Here was the proto- super-technology of the future, electronically, robotically, blahblahblah, intercut with traditional Japanese cultural patterns, Shinto patterns.
Ian Watson
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We who grew up with 'drop and cover' drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot.
Kage Baker
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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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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.
Hannes Alfven
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I love science fiction.
Pam Grier
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We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.
Candice S. Miller
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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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You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
Beatrice Wood
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Get there first with the most.
Nathan Bedford Forrest
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Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.
Iain Banks
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I was a good student with mathematical ability and interests. As such, I took the usual college preparatory program in high school for one looking to become an engineer: all the available courses in mathematics and science.
Dale T. Mortensen
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Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure.
Frances Burney
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The Ebola epidemic was the most frightening outbreak I have witnessed in my lifetime, and I believe it was necessary to react globally as strongly as we did.
Pardis Sabeti
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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
Vernor Vinge
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For St. Thomas Aquinas the problem was rather different. It was a question of how to integrate philosophy into sacred science, not only without allowing either the one or the other to suffer essentially thereby, but to the greater benefit of both. In order to achieve this result, he had to integrate a science of reason with a science of revelation without corrupting at the same time both the purity of reason and the purity of revelation.
Etienne Gilson
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It takes a lot of energy to work, in general, especially if you're the lead in something.
Faith Ford
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As a guest, Emily Price had three main drawbacks: she was incapable of saying please, incapable of saying thank you and incapable of saying sorry, all the while creating a surge in the demand for these expressions.
Edward St Aubyn
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The king himself has followed herWhen she has walk'd before.
Oliver Goldsmith
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The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.
Jacob Bronowski