Herbert Simon | science
One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it.
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David Brin | science
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.
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David Brin | science
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.
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David Brin | science
Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.
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Dean Inge | science
In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.
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Michael Behe | science
Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted.
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Mark Goddard | science
I’m not a great science fiction fan myself. I probably feel that way about Westerns. Like I used to play Cowboys and Indians, they can act out Will and the Robot.
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