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"Human psychology is the most mysterious thing in the world."
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"Is it not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the world through so small an eye, and hear the thunder through an ear which is smaller than a hare's? But if his eyes were broad as the lens of Herschel's great telescope; and his ears capacious as the porches of cathedrals; would that make him any longer of sight, or sharper of hearing? Not at all.-Why then do you try to 'enlarge' your mind? Subtilize it."
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"In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous."
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"Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not."
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"In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas."Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of."
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"The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it."
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"The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals."
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"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."
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"All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking."
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"We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions."
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"Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient."
Energy
"The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars."
Space
"In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory."
Earth
"Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars."
Science
"Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots."
Army
"No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world."
Excitement
"If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be."
Travel
"It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance."
Society
"Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter."
Energy
"The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light."
Energy
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