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"If the universe is anything, it should be fun."
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"Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion."
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"Fun is never gone because life is fun."
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"Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed."
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"I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out."
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"Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it."
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"Working is hard and distracts from having fun."
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"Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening."
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"The Britney Spears movie was just fun and light, but let's talk about that in a few months."
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"I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it."
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"You can make fun of everything."
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"While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to me."
Science
"The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all."
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"When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier."
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"I don't know anybody who said, 'I love that teacher, he or she gave a really good homework set,' or 'Boy, that was the best class I ever took because those exams were awesome.' That's not what people want to talk about. It's not what influences people in one profession or another."
Education
"Passion is what gets you through the hardest times that might otherwise make strong men weak, or make you give up."
Motivation
"Some molecules - ammonia, carbon dioxide, water - show up everywhere in the universe, whether life is present or not. But others pop up especially in the presence of life itself. Among the biomarkers in Earth's atmosphere are ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons from aerosol sprays, vapor from mineral solvents, escaped coolants from refrigerators and air conditioners, and smog from the burning of fossil fuels. No other way to read that list: sure signs of the absence of intelligence."
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"Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not."
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"There's a lot to do in space. I want to learn more about the greenhouse effect on Venus, about whether there was life on Mars, about the environment in which Earth and the Sun is immersed, the behavior of the Sun."
Science
"If you removed all the arteries, veins, & capillaries from a person's body, and tied them end-to-end the person will die."
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"Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend to focus on all the sordid details in the life of the person who made the discovery. I find this path to be voyeuristic but not enlightening. Instead, I ask, After evolution was discovered, how did religion and society respond? After cities were electrified, how did daily life change? After the airplane could fly from one country to another, how did commerce or warfare change? After we walked on the Moon, how differently did we view Earth? My larger understanding of people, places and things derives primarily from stories surrounding questions such as those."
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