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"You look at the world around you, and you take it apart into all its components. Then you take some of those components, throw them away, and plug in different ones, start it up and see what happens."
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"The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One."
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"But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us."
"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."
"The world is not black and white. More like black and grey."
"We need the Chinese to - you know, spend more, save less - consume more and not be so focused on exports. There are big changes we need in the world."
"I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly."
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"In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it."
"I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette."
"My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method."
"Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great)."
"I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time."
"People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research."
"I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them."
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