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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.

  Stanley Albert Schmidt

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• The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man’s work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past.

  Edward Mills Purcell

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• The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being.

  Sir James George Frazer

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• Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view.

  Cecil Frank Powell

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• There’s no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.

  David Brin

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• Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I’ve had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam… and I’m not happy to be right in all of those cases.

  David Brin

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• But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I’ll bet you’ll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.

  David Brin

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• How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.

  David Hilbert

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• Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.

  Emily Post

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• Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.

  William Howell Masters

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• Art is made to disturb, science reassures.

  Georges Braque

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• Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.

  Karl Popper

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• Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.

  Karl Popper

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• The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.

  Frederik Pohl

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• Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren’t all that great).

  Frederik Pohl

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• My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature – science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.

  Frederik Pohl

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• It’s clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.

  Frederik Pohl

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• I don’t think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them.

  Frederik Pohl

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• A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.

  Frederik Pohl

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• Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you’re being had.

  Michael Crichton

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