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"I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday."
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"The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it."
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"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."
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"Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know."
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"The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions."
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"Time in itself, absolutely, does not exist; it is always relative to some observer or some object. Without a clock I say 'I do not know the time' . Without matter time itself is unknowable. Time is a function of matter; and matter therefore is the clock that makes infinity real."
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"Men of science offer us health, an obvious benefit; it is only afterwards that we discover that by health, they mean bodily slavery and spiritual tedium."
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"I don't think there's an interesting boundary between philosophy and science. Science is totally beholden to philosophy. There are philosophical assumptions in science and there's no way to get around that."
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"Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns."
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"Much more plausible is the computer-based explanation that dreams are a spillover from the unconscious processing of the day's experience, from the brain's decision on how much of the daily events temporarily stored in a kind of buffer to emplace in long-term memory... The American psychiatrist Ernest Hartmann of Tufts University has providedanecdotal but reasonably persuasive evidence that people who are engaged in intellectual activities during the day, especially unfamiliar intellectual activities, require more sleep at night, while, by and large, those engaged in mainly repetitive and intellectually unchallenging tasks are able to do with much less sleep."
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"Dark Energy is poorly understood and it is clear that we are currently moving into exploring thecomplete electromagnetic spectrum that also includes the study of atmospheric pressure waves,atmospheric voltage effects on the cellular system, and the biological effects of the various forms ofatmospheric radiation transmission."
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"I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes."
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"First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money."
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"No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them."
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"I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects."
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"I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday."
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"I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things."
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"I am a registered Democrat and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office."
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"If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you."
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