Quote by Joshua Foer
Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire i

Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction. – Joshua Foer

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Our subjective experience of time is highly variable. We all know that days can pass like weeks and months can feel like years, and that the opposite can be just as true: A month or year can zoom by in what feels like no time at all. – Joshua Foer

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Experience
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Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory. – Joshua Foer

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Humor
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No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand languages spoken today. – Joshua Foer

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communication
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If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos. – Robert Quillen

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The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler. – Edward Teller

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Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed. – Thomas Henry Huxley

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Science

Now, Venus is an extremely hostile environment, and as such presents a lot of challenges for a science fiction author who wants to create life there. However, as I began to research it more thoroughly, I found myself intrigued by the possibilities the world offers. – Sarah Zettel

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As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasnt, so making films would change nothing. – Claude Chabrol

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Life is trying things to see if they work. – Ray Bradbury

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