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"I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole."
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"Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science."

"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."

"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."

"Mathematics possesses not only truth but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere like that of a sculpture."

"Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way affected by every other piece of matter in the Universe, it is in theory possible to extrapolate the whole of creation - every sun, every planet, their orbits, their composition and their economic and social history from, say, one small piece of fairy cake."
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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."


"I knew I was doing something right because it was selling so I didn't want to interfere with it."


"I don't much like to look back with the idea that I was doing it wrong then or I'm doing it wrong now."


"I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could."


"Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated."


"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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