"As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography."

Science, History, Beginnings, Biography

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"As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography."

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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."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

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"Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

Science, History, Discovery, Knowledge

"Science can make a heart beat with ventilator, but there is only one power that makes it live, that is LOVE which is the purest form of FAITH."

Vikrmn, Indian Author

Science, Love, Faith, Power

"When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science."

Anton Chekhov, Russian Dramatist

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"Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang. The next time you complain that there is nothing on, remember that you can always watch the birth of the universe."

Bill Bryson, American Writer

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

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Science, Psychology, Mystery, Mind, Human

"The Man in the Moon is in fact a record of ancient catastrophes--most of which took place before humans, before mammals, and probably even before life arose on Earth. It is a characteristic conceit of our species to put a human face on random cosmic violence."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

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"Mankind willfully changing the global electromagnetic radiation environment has created what I expect will become known as the man-made evolution era."

Steven Magee, British Author

Science, Environment, Change, Humanity, Technology

"The toxicity of medical and industrial gas to the human depends on where it is used. A gas that is regarded as safe in a well ventilated environment at sea level may be a toxic gas in an indoor environment at high altitude."

Steven Magee, British Author

Science, Environment, Health, Safety

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"English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market."

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"There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have."

People

"I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English."

Work

"In America, if you don't do a 100 million dollars, you've done nothing."

Money

"I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces."

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"The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel."

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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."

"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."

"Science can make a heart beat with ventilator, but there is only one power that makes it live, that is LOVE which is the purest form of FAITH."

"When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science."

"Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang. The next time you complain that there is nothing on, remember that you can always watch the birth of the universe."

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

"The Man in the Moon is in fact a record of ancient catastrophes--most of which took place before humans, before mammals, and probably even before life arose on Earth. It is a characteristic conceit of our species to put a human face on random cosmic violence."

"Mankind willfully changing the global electromagnetic radiation environment has created what I expect will become known as the man-made evolution era."

"The toxicity of medical and industrial gas to the human depends on where it is used. A gas that is regarded as safe in a well ventilated environment at sea level may be a toxic gas in an indoor environment at high altitude."

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"English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market."

"There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have."

"I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English."

"In America, if you don't do a 100 million dollars, you've done nothing."

"I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces."

"I was a precocious reader."

"I write in American slang."

"Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype."

"I never learned to read music."

"The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel."