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"If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat."
"The disruption of science is one which abandons the method and seeks to conquer grounds outside its territory. It is not at all religion but this pseudo-science that is the enemy of science."
"Mathematics possesses not only truth but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere like that of a sculpture."
"Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way affected by every other piece of matter in the Universe, it is in theory possible to extrapolate the whole of creation - every sun, every planet, their orbits, their composition and their economic and social history from, say, one small piece of fairy cake."
"Neuroanatomy, political history, and introspection all offer evidence that human beings are quite capable of resisting the urge to surrender to every impulse of reptilian core of brain."
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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."
"Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women."
"My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus."
"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."
"I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along."
"When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books."
"It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is."
"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."
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