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I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I

I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining. – Octavia Butler

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So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest in science fiction came with an interest in astronomy. – Octavia Butler

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Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadnt had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish. – Octavia Butler

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The thing about science fiction is that its totally wide open. But its wide open in a conditional way. – Octavia Butler

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I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier. – Sarah Zettel

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Science, for hundreds of years, has spanned the differences between cultures and between countries. – Laurel Clark

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Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved. – Jacob Bronowski

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In science there is only physics all the rest is stamp collecting. – Lord Kelvin

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