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I like audacious ideas.
Religions do not teach doubt.
I don't get even, I get odder.
To shine is better than to reflect.
Ugliness is nature's contraceptive.
Aging is mostly the failure to repair.
If you are losing at a game, change the game.
I'm a very big Faulkner fan 'cause I'm a Southerner.
Disintegration of structure equals information loss.
The biggest mistake is being too afraid of making one.
When the chemistry is right, all the experiments work.
They will do anything for the worker, except become one.
I've always felt that specialization is best left to the insects.
People fear their hidden selves, afraid that they will burst out.
My brother Jim and I shared a womb without a view for nine months.
We hope we can slow or possibly reverse the symptoms of Alzheimer's.
Modern economics and the welfare state borrowed heavily on the future.
Science would lead you to a more interesting life than something else.
Any technology that does not appear magical is insufficiently advanced.
Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available
Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
The personal was, compared with the tides of great nations, a bothersome detail.
No matter how much you plan for it, the real thing seems curiously, well, unreal.
Congress came to see NASA primarily as a jobs program, not an exploratory agency.
I have an artificial left shoulder, wired back together after a softball accident.
The peers just fill the air with their speeches.""And from what I've seen, vice versa.
Mathematics cannot handle physical quantities like density that literally go to infinity.
In the end, postmodern art is obscene not because it is offensive, but because it is boring.
(Crank theories) always violated the first rule of a scientific model: they were uncheckable.
At least being prosperous set one apart in England; here it guaranteed nothing, not even taste.
The people who built the space program - both Soviet and U.S. - were readers of science fiction.
The talk shows I've done are all radio for exactly this reason: I don't want to wear a rubber mask.
It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.
To deliver vast new resources to humanity, we must pioneer and occupy the moon, Mars, and perhaps even beyond.
The world is neither running down nor deterministic, and a strict division of order versus chaos is just wrong.
A view of nature as dense and nonlinear is at the core of our contemporary science. Process and order emerge subtly.
Fandom grew first through individual correspondence. It was cheap and quick, continent-wide contact for a penny stamp.
Once you've grown up in space, moving on means moving out, not going back to Earth. Nobody wants to be a groundpounder.
Peter Watts delivers-solid, inventive hard sf about the deep sea, but as we've never seen before. This moves like the wind.
Like immense time-binding discussions, genres allow ideas to be developed and traded, and for variations to be spun down through decades.
True twins share womb chemistry and endure many fateful slings and arrows together. The fabled connection between twins is true in my case.
Certainly I see no reason why society should prevent grieving parents from having a baby cloned from the cells of a dead child if they wish.
In a tough situation, don't avoid acting just because it's easier or comfortable. Don't lapse into a passive state. People who give up, die.
Around 1930, a small new phenomenon arose in Depression-ridden America, spawned out of the letter columns in science fiction magazines: fandom.
The earliest depiction of libertarian eugenics may have appeared in a science fiction novel, Robert Heinlein's 1942 tale 'Beyond This Horizon.'
Everybody feels he has a right to a life of luxury - or at least comfort - so there's a lot of frustration and resentment when the dream craps out.
'Star Trek' is notorious for looting the more thoughtful work of writers for their striking effects, leaving behind most of the thought and subtlety.
Nostalgia is eternal for Americans. We are often displaced from our origins and carry anxious memories of that lost past. We fear losing our bearings.
As a literature of change driven by technology, science fiction presents religion to a part of the reading public that probably seldom goes to church.
Genre pleasures are many, but the quality of shared values within an ongoing discussion may be the most powerful, enlisting lifelong devotion in its fans.