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"You squeeze the eyedropper, and a drop of pond water drips out onto the microscope stage. You look at the projected image. The drop is full of life - strange beings swimming, crawling, tumbling; high dramas of pursuit and escape, triumph and tragedy. This is a world populated by beings far more exotic than in any science fiction movie..."

"What is salvation for humans? The answer is simple: Salvation is to perpetuate our existence via science!"

"Statistics, likelihoods, and probabilities mean everything to men, nothing to God."
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"When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books."

"Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women."

"There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person."

"I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?"

"But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world."

"I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along."

"My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus."
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