"It's most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises."

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"It's most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises."

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"The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about."

Arthur C. Clarke, English Writer

Answers, Questions, Thinking, Worth

"Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"It is the answers, not the questions, that are embarrassing."

Helen Suzman, South African Politician

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"The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries."

Robert Vaughn, American Actor

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"Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

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"The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept."

George Carlin, American Comedian

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"If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience."

Kurt Loder, American Journalist

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"We'd like to have immediate answers to all of our questions. I think medicine in particular. I found it frustrating as a physician sometimes to not be able to tell someone exactly why something was happening to them. There are still so many mysteries in medicine."

Laurel Clark, American Astronaut

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"As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in science in this century alone."

Science, Will

"Its limitations are those of the physical universe: it won't let you play with some really wild ideas that aren't possible, but are fun to speculate about."

Creativity, Ideas, Fun, Limitations, Play

"I think the rising and falling popularity of areas like hard SF and far-future SF is, to a considerable extent, the same as any other fashion."

Fashion, Popularity

"This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes means doing fairly involved calculations."

Attention, Calculations, Writing

"When something hasn't been around much for a while, and one example of it turns up and catches people's eyes, they go looking for more like it - until they get tired of it again."

People, Example, Eyes

"It's easy to imagine ways the future can be ugly and depressing. It's harder, but more worthwhile, to imagine plausible ways we can make it better."

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"I think the international appeal of SF is quite understandable since the kinds of people who like to read it, are, by the nature of the beast, interested in other cultures, of which other nations on Earth are the closest available example."

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"And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of the writers come from those backgrounds, so does much of the fiction."

Fiction, Now, Writers

"There are a significant number of people who appreciate what we do, and most of them gravitate to Analog because this is where they can find it. The other magazines tend to share their audiences, which may result in each of them having a smaller market share."

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"Of course, the way writers think about those things is almost certain to be affected by their own cultural background, and it would be hard to deny that, for whatever reasons, a lot of SF writers come from Anglo or European backgrounds."

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