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"Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus."
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"History is the preceptor of prudence, not principles."
"It reaffirmed my long-held belief that education was the enemy of prejudice. These were men and women of science, and science had no room for racism."
"Trying to educate the dumb with a dumb teacher is nothing but washing the dirty clothes in a dirty water!"
"If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others."
"Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point."
"No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process."
"We shall always meet teachers but we shall seldom meet good teachers. We shall seldom meet a good teacher who is good enough to direct the body, mind and soul towards the path of true purposefulness. We shall hardly meet good teachers who are good enough to leave indelible and distinctive footprints in our minds; good teachers whose words, thoughts, actions and wonderful deeds would continue to reecho themselves in our minds and become the yardstick, guiding principles and reasons for the steps we take each moment of time. We shall always meet teachers but, we shall seldom and hardly meet great teachers!"
"I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia."
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"My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world."
"I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting."
"Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women."
"I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along."
"I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?"
"When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books."
"You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses."
"So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it."
"There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person."
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