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"I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way."
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"Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science."
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"Things remain paranormal, as long as we scientists don't reveal the underlying physical processes."
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"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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"The disruption of science is one which abandons the method and seeks to conquer grounds outside its territory. It is not at all religion but this pseudo-science that is the enemy of science."
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"You can't understand depth of science, unless you challenge the published scientific data."
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"The important concept of the solar wind is that Space is not empty. It is an energy and particle filled environment that interacts with whatever is in it! Astronomers call this 'Dark Energy'."
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"You can put the human mind and body into strange states through the use of alien environments."
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"The vitamin, mineral, metal and oil content of the human body drastically alters its reactivity to radiation exposures."
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"Perhaps a physicist would know at once why this whole idea was absurd. But then, perhaps a physicist would be so locked into the consensus of his scientific community that it would be harder for him to accept an idea that transformed the meaning of everything he knew. Even if it were true."
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"Mathematics possesses not only truth but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere like that of a sculpture."
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"So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out."
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"I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory."
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"A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt."
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"I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck."
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"Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal."
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"I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing."
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"I knew I was doing something right because it was selling so I didn't want to interfere with it."
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"I like to think that I have no single view nor any single situation that I think things arrive from. I try to give examples of what I think are interesting questions for me."
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"A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind."
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"The absurdist stuff wasn't terribly popular at the time I was doing it."
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