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"One of my degrees was a science degree in biology."
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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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"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."

"When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware."

"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."

"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."

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