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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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"I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on."
Driving
"I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books."
Science
"I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff."
Writing
"Travel definitely affects me as a writer."
Travel
"You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't."
Writing
"I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words."
Friendship
"But then of course you reach a point where you have to say, I've got to figure out how this book's going to end. Otherwise, you're going to write yourself into so many dead-ends."
Writing
"It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines."
Work
"I never played inside as a kid - even in the rain I'd go out."
Sports
"Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It's just less of your life invested."
Life
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