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"In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings."
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"It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature."
"The total amount of energy from outside the solar system ever received by all the radio telescopes on the planet Earth is less than the energy of a single snowflake striking the ground."
"Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know."
"What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth."
"Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think."
"The publication of the third volume of Capital has made hardly any impression upon bourgeois economic science."
"I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses and theories might account for that data. So there's a continuity between philosophy and science in that way."
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"Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail."
"Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens."
"One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments."
"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."
"Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile."
"All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected."
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