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"Human psychology is the most mysterious thing in the world."

"Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not."

"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."

"Psychology is more concerned with identifying the degree of mental disorder and less with its cure!"

"A drop of water is not immortal; it can be resolved into oxygen and hydrogen. If, therefore, a drop of water were to maintain that it had a quality of aqueousness which would survive its dissolution we should be inclined to be skeptical. In like manner we know that the brain is not immortal..."
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"Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction."


"Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail."


"All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected."


"Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile."


"If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur."


"One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments."


"If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and there won't be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt!"
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