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"Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer."
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"At the end of all spiritual paths, there lies only a cold graveyard; the path of science is the only path that may give you something better than this!"
"It is a strange fact, incidentally, that religious apologists love the anthropic principle. For some reason that makes no sense at all, they think it supports their case. Precisely the opposite is true. The anthropic principle, like natural selection, is an alternative to the design hypothesis. It provides a rational, design-free explanation for the fact that we find ourselves in a situation propitious to our existence."
"Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact."
"It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics."
"Darwin gives courage to the rest of science that we shall end up understanding literally everything, springing from almost nothing - a thought extremely hard to comprehend and believe."
"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."
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"If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance."
"No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own."
"For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people."
"Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen."
"My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it."
"I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us."
"Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene."
"Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed."
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