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Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.


Octavia Butler

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DAVID HANSON I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me.
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DAMON LINDELOF my imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark ...
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MARIE LU Everywhere you look in science, the harder it becomes to understand the universe without God.
ROBERT HERRMAN Everywhere you look in science, the harder it becomes to understand the universe without God.
ROBERT HERRMANN Everywhere you look in science, the harder it becomes to understand the universe without God.
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PHILIP K. DICK Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It's a way to understand how the wo...
BERNARD WERBER Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a fu...
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DANIELA RUAH I look into my heart and see the abyss looking back at me.'

'I won't let you fall.
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URSULA K. LEGUIN Science fiction works best when it stimulates debate.
GREG BEAR Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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CLARENCE BUDDINTON KELLAND My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
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CHRIS CARTER I've come back for you, my love, my life. Let me look at you, keep you, never let go of you.
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Let me taste the meaning of sublime;
Let my soul mingle with You, NEELAM SAXENA CHANDRA While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbuste...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON Let us advance science to create a better world for all.
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SAMUEL BUTLER All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
SAMUEL BUTLER For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material prosperity in this world --is the...
SAMUEL BUTLER A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to r...
SAMUEL BUTLER In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
SAMUEL BUTLER People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
SAMUEL BUTLER Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survive...
PHILIP BUTLER Life is one long process of getting tired.
SAMUEL BUTLER Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
SAMUEL BUTLER A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage -- but they are also no less invalid...
SAMUEL BUTLER A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does...
SAMUEL BUTLER When the righteous man truth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which...
SAMUEL BUTLER It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
SAMUEL BUTLER Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
SAMUEL BUTLER The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
SAMUEL BUTLER Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
SAMUEL BUTLER We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the...
SAMUEL BUTLER Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
SAMUEL BUTLER Because they did not see merit where they should have seen it, people, to express their regret, will...
SAMUEL BUTLER There is but one step from the Academy to the Fad.
SAMUEL BUTLER The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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