Quote by Octavia Butler
So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fictio

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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Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when its all over. – Octavia Butler

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No, I think the future of humanity will be like the past, well do what weve always done and there will still be human beings. Granted, there will always be people doing something different and there are a lot of possibilities. – Octavia Butler

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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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I felt that chess… is a science in the form of a game… I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist. – Bobby Fischer

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Thats the whole problem with science. Youve got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder. – Bill Watterson

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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas. – Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life, 1913

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There are no shortcuts in evolution. – Louis D. Brandeis

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