"I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole."

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"The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it."

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"The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions."

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"Time in itself, absolutely, does not exist; it is always relative to some observer or some object. Without a clock I say 'I do not know the time' . Without matter time itself is unknowable. Time is a function of matter; and matter therefore is the clock that makes infinity real."

John Fowles, English Novelist

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"Men of science offer us health, an obvious benefit; it is only afterwards that we discover that by health, they mean bodily slavery and spiritual tedium."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"I don't think there's an interesting boundary between philosophy and science. Science is totally beholden to philosophy. There are philosophical assumptions in science and there's no way to get around that."

Sam Harris, American Author

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"Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

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"Much more plausible is the computer-based explanation that dreams are a spillover from the unconscious processing of the day's experience, from the brain's decision on how much of the daily events temporarily stored in a kind of buffer to emplace in long-term memory... The American psychiatrist Ernest Hartmann of Tufts University has providedanecdotal but reasonably persuasive evidence that people who are engaged in intellectual activities during the day, especially unfamiliar intellectual activities, require more sleep at night, while, by and large, those engaged in mainly repetitive and intellectually unchallenging tasks are able to do with much less sleep."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

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"Dark Energy is poorly understood and it is clear that we are currently moving into exploring thecomplete electromagnetic spectrum that also includes the study of atmospheric pressure waves,atmospheric voltage effects on the cellular system, and the biological effects of the various forms ofatmospheric radiation transmission."

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

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"A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt."

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"It takes me a long time to get with a landscape. It took me 20 years before I wrote anything about Ibiza, and I haven't written about Oregon yet, although I've been there 20 years - possibly I'm almost due."

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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'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."

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"The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it."

"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."

"Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know."

"The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions."

"Time in itself, absolutely, does not exist; it is always relative to some observer or some object. Without a clock I say 'I do not know the time' . Without matter time itself is unknowable. Time is a function of matter; and matter therefore is the clock that makes infinity real."

"Men of science offer us health, an obvious benefit; it is only afterwards that we discover that by health, they mean bodily slavery and spiritual tedium."

"I don't think there's an interesting boundary between philosophy and science. Science is totally beholden to philosophy. There are philosophical assumptions in science and there's no way to get around that."

"Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns."

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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."

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

"A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt."

"It takes me a long time to get with a landscape. It took me 20 years before I wrote anything about Ibiza, and I haven't written about Oregon yet, although I've been there 20 years - possibly I'm almost due."

"I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it."

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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'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."