Quote by Terry Pratchett
It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is

It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational – and Im speaking the written science fiction, not Star Trek. Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if theyre clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff. – Terry Pratchett

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The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that cant so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care? – Terry Pratchett

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In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character there was nothing particularly new about this – death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper. – Terry Pratchett

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Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task. – Richard Leakey

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Ive always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render. – Barbara Kingsolver

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I dont think theres a date minimum or maximum. I dont get the whole All right, youve got to wait three days to call after the date. If I got a number from a girl, Id call that night. Theres no science to it for me. You just do what it is that you feel like doing. – Channing Tatum

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Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts. – David Hilbert

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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it. – Thomas a Kempis

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